Growth and Turbulence in the Container/Contained: Bion's Continuing Legacy

Howard B. Levine works as a member of faculty at the Psychoanalytic Institute of New England East (PINE) and as a member of faculty and supervising analyst at Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis (MIP). He is in private practice in Brookline, Massachusetts. Lawrence J. Brown is a supervising child analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute (BPSI). He is a member of faculty at the BPSI as well as at MIP, where he is a supervising analyst. He is the author of Intersubjective Processes and the Unconscious: An Integration of Freudian, Kleinian and Bionian Perspectives, published in 2011 by Routledge (New Library of Psychoanalysis). He is in private practice in Newton Centre, Massachusetts.

• Levine , Brown, Introduction and Historical Overview. Laks Eizerik, Introduction. Brown, The Development of Bion’s Concept of Container and Contained. Szykierski, The Traumatic Roots Of The Containment Fruit: The Evolution Of Bion’s Metapsychological Questions From Bearing Witness To Dreadful Answers. Aguayo, Wilfred Bion’s ‘Caesura’: From Public Lecture to Published Text—(1975-1977). Clinical Process. Ferro, Vicissitudes Of The Container-Contained And Field Theory. Grotstein, Dreaming As A "Curtain Of Illusion": Revisiting The "Royal Road" With Bion As Our Guide. Hartke, Psychological Turbulence In The Analytic Situation. Cassorla, Reflections On Non-Dreams-For-Two, Enactment And The Analyst’s Implicit Alpha-Function. Pathological States. Junqueira de Mattos, & Braga, Primitive Conscience: A Glimpse Of The Primordial Mind. Bruni, Container-Contained. Inverted Relationship. Weiss, Romantic Perversion – a Pathological Organization Based on –L. Reflections on Containment and the Experience of Time. Trachtenberg, Caesura, Denial and Envy. Infant and Child Analysis. Robinson, Infant Observation: Catastrophic Change Under a Microscope. Staehle, The Threatening Character of Change. An Approach With Patients Who Experience Progress As Trauma. Applied Studies. Waddell, Meaning And Form. The Containing Function Of Art. Priel, The Power of Form: The Shoah in Contemporary Hebrew Literature. Final Thoughts. Levine, Looking Back, Looking Ahead.