Annie Reiner - Böcker

Dr James Grotstein (1925-2015) was the foremost Bion scholar, and one of the most noted and honoured psychoanalysts in the world. His prolific writings and generous encouragement to other analysts has had an enormous impact. He was among the first to examine Bion's most controversial concept - O - in particular the mystical aspects of O. The title of this book, Of Things Invisible To Mortal Sight: A Celebration of the Work of James S. Grotstein, inspired by a line from Milton's Paradise Lost (Book III), reflects Grotstein's decades-long examination of the most profound aspects of the human mind. Dr James Grotstein's erudition and depth of understanding made him one of the most revered psychoanalysts throughout the psychoanalytic world. He was well known and appreciated for his prolific writings, so it was only fitting to honour him through writing, and the fifteen articles in Of Things Invisible To Mortal Sight are written by esteemed analysts from Italy, Brazil, Argentina, Israel, and throughout the United States.

This book offers a new perspective on conscience as an as yet unrealized human potential, but a potential toward which human beings are naturally driven. A distinction is made between a "mature" or "healthy" conscience - a "conscience capable of maturation" - and the classical notion of the superego; it also postulates that the two may represent two separate lines of development. Conscience is seen to be inseparable from consciousness; the development of a mature conscience is seen to have its foundation in the development of a true or authentic self, while the classical notion of the superego is viewed as an often pathological manifestation of this natural mental potential. Theological ideas are relevant to any discussion of morality, conscience and guilt. Freud's and Bion's perspectives on religion are closely examined, revealing fundamental differences in their views of the mind. The author incorporates the metaphysical perspective central to Bion's concept of "O" as fundamental to an understanding of the development of a healthy conscience.

With his concept of "O," Wilfred Bion provided a new psychoanalytic space in which to explore the mind. Dr Annie Reiner's new book, Bion and Being: Passion and the Creative Mind, examines the similarities between this psychoanalytic space and the artist's creative sensibility, as well as mystical and religious states. This most mysterious and revolutionary of Bion's analytic ideas reflects what is essentially a state of being, an experience of mental integrity and union between emotional and rational functions of the mind which is the basis of thinking and creativity. In an effort to provide emotional understanding to Bion's theoretical ideas, Dr Reiner uses examples of artists, poets, writers, theologians, and philosophers, including Rilke, Cummings, Shakespeare, Beckett, and Nietzsche, to illustrate these psychoanalytic concepts. She also presents detailed clinical examples of patient's dreams to explore the obstacles to these states of being, as well as how to work clinically to develop access to these creative states.

Annie Reiner’s introduction to Wilfred Bion’s theories of mind presents Bion’s intricate ideas in an accessible, original way without compromising their complexity.Reiner uses comparisons to painting, literature and philosophy, and detailed clinical examples, to provide an experience of Bion’s work that can be felt as well as thought. The book explores many of Bion’s theoretical and clinical innovations, and examines the controversy surrounding his concept of O. Reiner provides evidence of a continuity between Bion’s early ideas and his later, more esoteric work.W. R. Bion’s Theories of Mind will be essential reading for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic candidates, as well as students of psychoanalytic and psychological history, and anyone looking for a readable introduction to Bion’s work.

Annie Reiner’s introduction to Wilfred Bion’s theories of mind presents Bion’s intricate ideas in an accessible, original way without compromising their complexity.Reiner uses comparisons to painting, literature and philosophy, and detailed clinical examples, to provide an experience of Bion’s work that can be felt as well as thought. The book explores many of Bion’s theoretical and clinical innovations, and examines the controversy surrounding his concept of O. Reiner provides evidence of a continuity between Bion’s early ideas and his later, more esoteric work.W. R. Bion’s Theories of Mind will be essential reading for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic candidates, as well as students of psychoanalytic and psychological history, and anyone looking for a readable introduction to Bion’s work.

The Poetry, Art and Science of Psychoanalysis in Bion’s ‘O’ pays homage to Wilfred Bion’s lifelong love of poetry and his desire to integrate it with his psychoanalytic work as a means of communicating profound levels of emotional experience. Annie Reiner was a student of Bion in in the 1970s in Los Angeles. She illustrates here the fundamental similarities in the states of mind of creative people across diverse disciplines in the Arts and Sciences to exemplify Bion’s concept of ‘O’. Reiner, herself a poet and artist, shows how psychoanalysis and poetry rely on the same tools – symbols, metaphors, images and narrative – to communicate and express otherwise inexpressible metaphysical matters of mental life. Focusing on key psychoanalytic ideas, such as dream interpretation and trauma, she weaves in the poetry of Rumi, Pablo Neruda, Fernando Pessoa and William Blake, and ideas of artists like Matisse, Rothko and Jackson Pollock, as well as ideas of Christian and Hindu mystics to show analysts how creative arts can help them better understand primitive mental life. She shows how examining ideas from other disciplines in the arts, philosophy and religious thought can reveal an underlying unity of our ancient efforts to understand ourselves as human beings.Written in an accessible style and drawing on Reiner’s decades of experience within the creative and psychoanalytic fields, this book is a valuable resource to all analysts in training and practice, as well as those interested in understanding the deeper levels of the mind and emotional life.

The Poetry, Art and Science of Psychoanalysis in Bion’s ‘O’ pays homage to Wilfred Bion’s lifelong love of poetry and his desire to integrate it with his psychoanalytic work as a means of communicating profound levels of emotional experience. Annie Reiner was a student of Bion in in the 1970s in Los Angeles. She illustrates here the fundamental similarities in the states of mind of creative people across diverse disciplines in the Arts and Sciences to exemplify Bion’s concept of ‘O’. Reiner, herself a poet and artist, shows how psychoanalysis and poetry rely on the same tools – symbols, metaphors, images and narrative – to communicate and express otherwise inexpressible metaphysical matters of mental life. Focusing on key psychoanalytic ideas, such as dream interpretation and trauma, she weaves in the poetry of Rumi, Pablo Neruda, Fernando Pessoa and William Blake, and ideas of artists like Matisse, Rothko and Jackson Pollock, as well as ideas of Christian and Hindu mystics to show analysts how creative arts can help them better understand primitive mental life. She shows how examining ideas from other disciplines in the arts, philosophy and religious thought can reveal an underlying unity of our ancient efforts to understand ourselves as human beings.Written in an accessible style and drawing on Reiner’s decades of experience within the creative and psychoanalytic fields, this book is a valuable resource to all analysts in training and practice, as well as those interested in understanding the deeper levels of the mind and emotional life.

Dr James Grotstein (1925-2015) was the foremost Bion scholar, and one of the most noted and honoured psychoanalysts in the world. His prolific writings and generous encouragement to other analysts has had an enormous impact. He was among the first to examine Bion's most controversial concept - O - in particular the mystical aspects of O. The title of this book, Of Things Invisible To Mortal Sight: A Celebration of the Work of James S. Grotstein, inspired by a line from Milton's Paradise Lost (Book III), reflects Grotstein's decades-long examination of the most profound aspects of the human mind.Dr James Grotstein's erudition and depth of understanding made him one of the most revered psychoanalysts throughout the psychoanalytic world. He was well known and appreciated for his prolific writings, so it was only fitting to honour him through writing, and the fifteen articles in Of Things Invisible To Mortal Sight are written by esteemed analysts from Italy, Brazil, Argentina, Israel, and throughout the United States. They vary from examinations of Grotstein's theories and his historical place in psychoanalysis, to detailed clinical accounts and creative theoretical works. To honour James Grotstein is also to honour Wilfred Bion, for we might say that Bion was his muse for a half century, as well as his teacher, analyst, and the inspiration for Grotstein's encyclopedic writings about Bion's work in countless articles and books. Grotstein's insatiable curiosity and passion for learning, however, led to his studying and contributing to the literature of many other psychoanalytic orientations as well, ranging from Klein to Kohut to Intersubjectivity, but until the end of his life Grotstein continued to find inspiration in Bion's work, and in Bion himself - the genius, mystic, and "extraordinary individual." Grotstein spent decades examining Bion's concept of O, and many other mysteries and states of mind "invisible to mortal sight," which must nonetheless be intuited and which Grotstein, and these authors, help psychoanalysts to do.

This book offers a new perspective on conscience as an as yet unrealized human potential, but a potential toward which human beings are naturally driven. A distinction is made between a "mature" or "healthy" conscience - a "conscience capable of maturation" - and the classical notion of the superego; it also postulates that the two may represent two separate lines of development. Conscience is seen to be inseparable from consciousness; the development of a mature conscience is seen to have its foundation in the development of a true or authentic self, while the classical notion of the superego is viewed as an often pathological manifestation of this natural mental potential.Theological ideas are relevant to any discussion of morality, conscience and guilt. Freud's and Bion's perspectives on religion are closely examined, revealing fundamental differences in their views of the mind. The author incorporates the metaphysical perspective central to Bion's concept of "O" as fundamental to an understanding of the development of a healthy conscience. Detailed clinical examples clearly illustrate obstacles to the development, both of conscience and of an authentic self. These are examined with reference to early emotional trauma, including the failure of mental containment by the primary object, ideas which have their foundation in Fairbairn's theories about the infant's "moral dilemma".