From Extension to Revolutionary Change in Clinical Psychoanalysis

The Radical Influence of Bion and Winnicott

Bibliographic Data

ID9230985
AuthorsOfra Eshel (Training and Supervising Analyst and a faculty member of the Israel Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (IPA). She is also vice-president of the International Winnicott Association (IWA) and is the founder and head of the postgraduate track “Independent Psychoanalysis: Radical Breakthroughs” at the advanced studies of the Program of Psychotherapy, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University., corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume86
Issue4
Pages753-794
Publication date2017-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Psychoanalytic Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-2828 • E-ISSN: 2167-4086
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/psaq.12169
PMID29235679
OpenAlexW2775392941
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited39

This paper addresses the radical departure of late Bion's and Winnicott's clinical ideas and practices from traditional psychoanalytic work, introducing a revolutionary change in clinical psychoanalysis. The profound significance and implications of their thinking are explored, and in particular Bion's conception of transformation in O and Winnicott's clinical-technical revision of analytic work, with its emphasis on regression in the treatment of more disturbed patients. The author specifically connects the unknown and unknowable emotional reality-O with unthinkable breakdown (Winnicott) and catastrophe (Bion). The author suggests that the revolutionary approach introduced by the clinical thinking of late Bion and Winnicott be termed quantum psychoanalysis. She thinks that this approach can coexist with classical psychoanalysis in the same way that classical physics coexists with quantum physics

Extension (predicate logic) · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Psychoanalytic Therapy · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Computer Science · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications