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 model
has on clinical practice. He argues that the analyst or therapist
best fulfils a containing function by negotiating irreconcilable
internal tensions between his role as 'dream object' and 'proper
object'. The container model is also used to illustrate different
'modes of interaction' in the analytic field, the nature of
particular pathological states and some of the key dilemmas faced
in attempting to make unbearable mental states more bearable. As
well as addressing key theoretical problems, Containing States of
Mind is a clinical text that renders complex ideas accessible and
useful for psychotherapeutic and analytic practice and as such will
be essential reading for all those involved in the fields of
psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.
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