Book description
'This book offers a definitive reading of Bion's remarkable
autobiographical writings from a perspective embedded in the poetry of
the ages, that of the Romantics in particular. It is at once learned
and, utterly freshly, able to explore the inside story of Bion's life
and mind. The volume is a distillation and elaboration of the work of
many years. Whilst ostensibly an extended commentary on the
autobiographical works themselves, it is also, in its own right, a tour
de force, engaging, as it does, with the heart of the matter: with the
development of a psychoanalyst, of a life, a self, a mind, thoroughly
inward with the "dark and sombre world of thought".'- Margot
Waddell, psychoanalyst and consultant child psychotherapist, Tavistock
Clinic
