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Growth and Turbulence in the Container/Contained: Bion’s Continuing Legacy, edited by Howard B. Levine and Lawrence J. Brown, Routledge, 2013, 323pp.

Growth and Turbulence in the Container/Contained: Bion’s Continuing Legacy, edited by Howard B.... The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2016, 76, (423–426) 2016 Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis 0002-9548/16 www.palgrave.com/journals Book Reviews Growth and Turbulence in the Container/Contained: Bion’s Continuing Legacy, edited by Howard B. Levine and Lawrence J. Brown, Routledge, 2013, 323pp. Like many other relationally-informed psychoanalysts, I have developed a recent interest in neo-Bionian theory and practice. Bion’s second generation practitioners—the bulk of whom remain in Europe and Latin America—have taken up and extended his work. Largely unexplored in any depth at most interpersonal, self psychological or relational institutes in the United States, beyond a deferential nod to the containing/contained concept, Bion’s prolific writing and wealth of supervisory descriptions continue to find fresh interpretation, particularly surrounding his later work. In the U.S., several authors (particularly accessible are Thomas Ogden, 2005; Lawrence J. Brown, 2011) have written passionately about their growing under- standing and use of Bionian theory. While the Uruguayan e ´ migre ´ s Willie and Madeleine Baranger’s influential 1961–1962 paper on the psychoanalytic situation as a ‘‘bi-personal field’’ (translated into English in 2008) reframed Bionian thinking as ‘‘intersubjective,’’ it is perhaps Antonino Ferro, who among the authors featured in Growth and Turbulence, is currently the most notable contemporary http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2016 by Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
Subject
Psychology; Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis
ISSN
0002-9548
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1573-6741
DOI
10.1057/s11231-016-9058-1
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The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2016, 76, (423–426) 2016 Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis 0002-9548/16 www.palgrave.com/journals Book Reviews Growth and Turbulence in the Container/Contained: Bion’s Continuing Legacy, edited by Howard B. Levine and Lawrence J. Brown, Routledge, 2013, 323pp. Like many other relationally-informed psychoanalysts, I have developed a recent interest in neo-Bionian theory and practice. Bion’s second generation practitioners—the bulk of whom remain in Europe and Latin America—have taken up and extended his work. Largely unexplored in any depth at most interpersonal, self psychological or relational institutes in the United States, beyond a deferential nod to the containing/contained concept, Bion’s prolific writing and wealth of supervisory descriptions continue to find fresh interpretation, particularly surrounding his later work. In the U.S., several authors (particularly accessible are Thomas Ogden, 2005; Lawrence J. Brown, 2011) have written passionately about their growing under- standing and use of Bionian theory. While the Uruguayan e ´ migre ´ s Willie and Madeleine Baranger’s influential 1961–1962 paper on the psychoanalytic situation as a ‘‘bi-personal field’’ (translated into English in 2008) reframed Bionian thinking as ‘‘intersubjective,’’ it is perhaps Antonino Ferro, who among the authors featured in Growth and Turbulence, is currently the most notable contemporary

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