On Mental Growth

Lia Pistiner de Cortinas is a psychoanalyst, full member and training analyst of the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytical Association (APDEBA), and fellow of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA). She has a specialisation in child and adolescent psychoanalysis. She is also a psychologist (PhD) and a lawyer, having acquired degrees from Buenos Aires University.

• On Mental Growth -- Preface -- Foreword -- INTRODUCTION The ultrasensorial and infrasensorial spectrum: the extension of the psychoanalytical map of the mind -- Bion: the thinker and his work -- Differentiation between the psychotic and the non-psychotic parts of the personality -- Projective identification: realistic, communicative, and hypertrophic modalities -- An illustration of the ideas in Chapter Three used as clinical material through the film Pi -- The origin and nature of thinking -- Illustration of the ideas about the origin and nature of thought using the film Twelve Angry Men -- Learning from Experience: alpha function and reverie -- The matrix functions of thinking: myths, dreams, and models -- The function of dreams and myths as instruments with which to investigate mental life -- A theory of knowing—dreaming—thinking: emotional links and the container—contained relationship -- Transformations -- The difference between reparation and transformation -- Tropisms and mental growth