Underpinned by rigorous close readings of his oeuvre, this book provides a comprehensive guide to the development, practice and evolution of Wilfred Bion's clinical psychoanalytic work.

R.D. Hinshelwood is professor emeritus at the University of Essex, UK; previously director of the Cassel Hospital, London. He is a fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society, and a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He has written widely on psychoanalysis including The Dictionary of Kleinian Thought (1989), and Research on the Couch (2013), as well as editing with Nuno Torres Bion's Sources (2013).

Introduction: Wilfred Bion, Man and Career 1. Training and Orientation 2. Social Fields 3. Personification 4. Attacks on Reality 5. Clinical Enquiry as Epistemology 6. Turmoil and Invariance 7. The Basic Three - Science, Aesthetics and Religion Epilogue: The Clinical Journey