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.

'Psychoanalysis owes Bion some of its most original contributions. He conceives the mind as an expanding universe evolving towards mental growth or deterioration. The originality of his ideas and the new models he proposes demand an open-minded approach "without memory, without desire, without understanding". The inclusive amplitude of his ideas and intuition containing questions that went far beyond his time, without having a frame to contain them, made Bion a difficult author. Lia Pistiner de Cortinas is internationally known as an author who conveys Bion's ideas with a deep insight. She is revisiting Bion's hypotheses and developing her original perspective on reverie, the function of "dreaming", mental growth, and the transformations these ideas introduce in the psychoanalytic clinical practice.'? Marta Lilliecreutz, psychoanalyst, psychologist, and member of the Colegio de Psicologos de Buenos Aires

• 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

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.

'Psychoanalysis owes Bion some of its most original contributions. He conceives the mind as an expanding universe evolving towards mental growth or deterioration. The originality of his ideas and the new models he proposes demand an open-minded approach "without memory, without desire, without understanding". The inclusive amplitude of his ideas and intuition containing questions that went far beyond his time, without having a frame to contain them, made Bion a difficult author. Lia Pistiner de Cortinas is internationally known as an author who conveys Bion's ideas with a deep insight. She is revisiting Bion's hypotheses and developing her original perspective on reverie, the function of "dreaming", mental growth, and the transformations these ideas introduce in the psychoanalytic clinical practice.'? Marta Lilliecreutz, psychoanalyst, psychologist, and member of the Colegio de Psicologos de Buenos Aires

• 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

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.

'Psychoanalysis owes Bion some of its most original contributions. He conceives the mind as an expanding universe evolving towards mental growth or deterioration. The originality of his ideas and the new models he proposes demand an open-minded approach "without memory, without desire, without understanding". The inclusive amplitude of his ideas and intuition containing questions that went far beyond his time, without having a frame to contain them, made Bion a difficult author. Lia Pistiner de Cortinas is internationally known as an author who conveys Bion's ideas with a deep insight. She is revisiting Bion's hypotheses and developing her original perspective on reverie, the function of "dreaming", mental growth, and the transformations these ideas introduce in the psychoanalytic clinical practice.'? Marta Lilliecreutz, psychoanalyst, psychologist, and member of the Colegio de Psicologos de Buenos Aires

• 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