"This book will be of interest to those who are approaching Bion for the first time, to those who are specifically studying Bion's Transformations, but also to a general psychoanalytic readership who are interested in the metapsychological and epistemological implications of the concept of transformation. I find this book particularly well calibrated towards a broad readership: the academic specialist, the well-read and mature psychoanalytic reader, and the novice. In this book, the authors apply a distinctive reading method specifically to Bion's Transformations (1965). It is a psychoanalytic deconstructive reading suitable to the exercise of (clinical) imagination, parameterized by consistent epistemological principles, the authors constantly focuses and defocuses the diverse statutes of the concept of transformations, with his vast and refined philosophical knowledge. This book will inspire many readings and re-readings of Bion, a seminal author."
Elias Mallet da Rocha Barros is a training and supervising analyst and docent at the Brazilian Psychoanalytic Society of São Paulo (SBPSP); fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society and Institute; past editor for Latin America for the International Journal of Psychoanalysis; co-chair for Latin America of the IPA Encyclopedic Dictionary of Psychoanalysis; and the recipient of the 1999 Mary Sigourney Trust Award. He is also a Distinguished Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society.
Elias Mallet da Rocha Barros is a training and supervising analyst and docent at the Brazilian Psychoanalytic Society of São Paulo (SBPSP); fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society and Institute; past editor for Latin America for the International Journal of Psychoanalysis; co-chair for Latin America of the IPA Encyclopedic Dictionary of Psychoanalysis; and the recipient of the 1999 Mary Sigourney Trust Award. He is also a Distinguished Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society.