Containing States of Mind: Exploring Bion's 'Container Model' in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

by Duncan Cartwright

Wilfred Bion's insights into the analytic process have had a profound influence on how psychoanalysts and psychotherapists understand emotional change and pathological mental states. One of his most influential ideas concerns the notion that we need the minds of others to develop our own emotional and cognitive capacities.

In Containing States of Mind Duncan Cartwright explores and develops some of the implications that Bion's container...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583918795
• ISBN13: 9781583918791
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"