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2 unusual facts about Wilfred Bion


Paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions

Wilfred Bion articulates the dynamic nature of the positions, a point emphasised by Thomas Ogden, and expanded by John Steiner in terms of '"The equilibrium between the paranoid-schizoid and the depressive positions"'.

Wilfred Bion

Symington, Neville and Joan The Clinical Thinking of Wilfred Bion.


Robert Langs

Langs' early work borrows heavily from leading classical psychoanalysts, above all from Freud himself, as well as from authors in the broader psychoanalytic tradition such as Donald Winnicott, Wilfred Bion, Harold Searles, Ralph Greenson, Michael Balint and Willy and Madeleine Baranger.

Tavistock Institute

The Institute was founded in 1946 by a group of key figures at the Tavistock Clinic including Elliott Jaques, Henry Dicks, Leonard Browne, Ronald Hargreaves, John Rawlings Rees, Mary Luff and Wilfred Bion, with Tommy Wilson as chairman, funded by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.


see also

Gustave Le Bon

Trotter's book, Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War forms the basis for the research of both Wilfred Bion and Ernest Jones who established what would be called group psychology.