Bion: An Introduction – a clear, concise, and enjoyable overview of the wide-ranging work of Wilfred R. Bion from expert Nicola Abel-Hirsch
This book offers an introduction to the wide-ranging work of Wilfred R. Bion, a true pioneer in the psychoanalytic world.
Bion and his work can be somewhat enigmatic but Nicola Abel-Hirsch’s encyclopaedic knowledge of her subject shines through in this easy-to-read yet comprehensive primer.
Perfect for students, academics, and professionals in the mental health, humanities, and social sciences fields, it also provides those already familiar with his writings with an overview of the whole of his work, as well as insight into its sheer breadth, showcased so brilliantly in this slim volume.
‘Nicola Abel-Hirsch is a masterful teacher of Bion’s works; knowledgeable of his history as an individual and a psychoanalyst. Like the best of teachers, she knows her subject intimately and explains even the most obscure concepts clearly. Her new book, Bion: An Introduction, displays her deep appreciation and knowledge of the work of Bion. I highly recommend Bion: An Introduction to all clinicians and psychoanalysts who want to understand Bion’s life and work in depth.’
Lawrence J. Brown, author of Transformational Processes in Clinical Psychoanalysis: Dreaming, Emotions and the Present Moment and On Freud’s “Moses and Monotheism”
‘Underpinned by six opening thoughts and six closing thoughts as pointers, Bion: An Introduction is a masterpiece that captures the heart of Bion’s life and works brilliantly. Nicola Abel-Hirsch’s intimate knowledge of the thinking of W. R. Bion, combined with her deep capacity to dialogue with disciplines such as mathematics, philosophy, literature, the arts, and science, enables her to tackle a wide range of topics in a high-quality, original work. Bion: An Introduction is an essential, up-to-date, scholarly book for the study and exploration of Bion which intelligently stimulates new paths for thinking and dreaming.’
Jani Santamaría, co-editor of ‘Autistic Phenomena and Unrepresented States: Explorations in the Emergence of Self
‘Nicola Abel Hirsch has written a short, comprehensive new book on Bion, encompassing and interweaving his life and the progression of his work from the first to the final books and papers. Her extensive knowledge and profound understanding of Bion’s immense contribution to psychoanalysis makes her the ideal author for this book. The book is a pleasure to read; we feel her deeply engaged presence throughout, as if in a vivid dialogue with Bion in which she is always trying to understand him better. The compactness of the format consistently avoids over-simplification; one is left with an experience of fluidity and integration, and a sense of satisfaction for having been offered an accomplished, lively portrait of Bion the man and Bion the thinker.’
Ignês Sodré, author of Imaginary Existences: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Phantasy, Fiction, Dreams and Daydreams
ISBN: 978-1-912691-83-8 | Page Extent: 152
Paperback: £17.99 £16.19 | eBook: £14.99 £13.49
Print & eBook: £19.99
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Phoenix are winners!
Phoenix are winners! We’re thrilled to have received the Nick Robinson Newcomer Award at the Independent Publishers Guild Awards 2023!
This is an incredible achievement and we’re so proud to have our hard work, and that of our authors, acknowledged. Here’s to continuing success into the future!🥂
In case you missed it: listen to the new ‘Firing the Mind’ podcast!
We’ve now launched our new podcast, ‘Firing the Mind’!
The episodes will feature our authors in conversation to bring psychoanalytic ideas to a wider audience.
Our first episode features two first-time authors: Jayne Hankinson and Nilofer Kaul. Their discussion ranges around creation myths, minus links, and other themes and topics explored in their debut works.
In First Thoughts: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Beginnings, Jayne Hankinson applies psychoanalytic theory to enable a deeper understanding of the creation myths that exist for each and every one of us, building on the traditions established by the visionary W. R. Bion to present a philosophical and spiritual odyssey to inspire and enjoy.
Nilofer Kaul’s Plato’s Ghost: Minus Links and Liminality in Psychoanalytic Practice brings together psychoanalytic and literary theory, case vignettes, fiction, history of ideas, and science and culture to expand commonly used terms such as regret, candour, autonomy, and parasitism and further the conversation between disciplines.
Our recent releases
Events for your calendar
15 April: Book launch: We Don’t Speak of Fear: Large Group Identity, Societal Conflict and Collective Trauma
OPUS will host this online book launch for this compelling collection from the International Dialogue Initiative (IDI). Get your copy here.
15 April: A trauma-informed workshop: Working with traumatic stress held in the body
Wimbledon Guild Counselling host this body-based trauma-informed workshop with Lorna Evans. The workshop will illuminate the unconscious and non verbal phenomena in the process of working with traumatic stress held in the body, and help participants gain confidence in noticing where these healing tools can be integrated creatively into practice, both in person and online.
25 April: The Psychotherapy of Habitual Worry, Repetitive Fantasizing, and Obsession
In this online workshop Richard Erskine will draw on object relations and integrative approaches to present a six-point Treatment Plan for the psychotherapy of clients who engage in obsession, habitual worrying, and repetitive fantasizing. View our books from Richard Erskine here.
Dive deeper into the topic at the 2-day in-person conference in May – see below for details.
13 May: Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute 2023 Gala
Held in person and online, the gala will feature special guest Salman Akhtar and his forthcoming Selected Papers. Get your set of these ten stunning hardback volumes here.
16 May–25 July: The Political Mind Series 2023
David Morgan will chair these seminars exploring contemporary issues such as the pandemic, racism, totalitarian thinking and dangers to democracy, as well as the NHS, the market economy, the climate crisis, and gender and sexuality. View the Political Mind book series here.
17 May: Discussion of ‘The Analyst’s Torment’
The Freud Museum will host author Dr Dhwani Shah in discussion with psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Dr Aisha Abbasi about his debut publication The Analyst’s Torment: Unbearable Mental States in Countertransference.
25–26 May: Shame, Obsession & Habitual Worrying: A Perspective from Relational and Integrative Psychotherapy
Dr Richard Erskine presents this in-person workshop in London which uses lecture, case-discussions and live demonstrations to look at the interpersonal and intrapersonal dynamics of shame and the psychological defence of self-righteousness. Erskine will present a six-point Treatment Plan for clients who engage in obsession, habitual worrying, and repetitive fantasizing. View our books from Richard Erskine here.
4 – 5 November: Unleashing Otto Rank: From Interpretation to Experience
The Existential Humanistic Institute present the first ever international Otto Rank conference. It will re-introduce the legacy, focus, and implications of Rank’s genius for a new generation of Depth Psychologists. The conference features eight speakers representing a wide range of perspectives on Rank, coupled with experiential sessions where speakers and audience interact.
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Today we release Bion: An Introduction, a clear, concise, and enjoyable overview of the wide-ranging work of Wilfred R. Bion from expert Nicola Abel-Hirsch.
This book offers an introduction to the wide-ranging work of Wilfred R. Bion, a true pioneer in the psychoanalytic world.
Bion and his work can be somewhat enigmatic but Nicola Abel-Hirsch’s encyclopaedic knowledge of her subject shines through in this easy-to-read yet comprehensive primer.
Perfect for students, academics, and professionals in the mental health, humanities, and social sciences fields, it also provides those already familiar with his writings with an overview of the whole of his work, as well as insight into its sheer breadth, showcased so brilliantly in this slim volume.
ISBN: 978-1-912691-83-8 | Page Extent: 152
Paperback: £17.99 £16.19 | eBook: £14.99 £13.49
Print & eBook: £19.99
‘Nicola Abel-Hirsch is a masterful teacher of Bion’s works; knowledgeable of his history as an individual and a psychoanalyst. Like the best of teachers, she knows her subject intimately and explains even the most obscure concepts clearly. Her new book, Bion: An Introduction, displays her deep appreciation and knowledge of the work of Bion. I highly recommend Bion: An Introduction to all clinicians and psychoanalysts who want to understand Bion’s life and work in depth.’
Lawrence J. Brown, author of Transformational Processes in Clinical Psychoanalysis: Dreaming, Emotions and the Present Moment and On Freud’s “Moses and Monotheism”
‘Underpinned by six opening thoughts and six closing thoughts as pointers, Bion: An Introduction is a masterpiece that captures the heart of Bion’s life and works brilliantly. Nicola Abel-Hirsch’s intimate knowledge of the thinking of W. R. Bion, combined with her deep capacity to dialogue with disciplines such as mathematics, philosophy, literature, the arts, and science, enables her to tackle a wide range of topics in a high-quality, original work. Bion: An Introduction is an essential, up-to-date, scholarly book for the study and exploration of Bion which intelligently stimulates new paths for thinking and dreaming.’
Jani Santamaría, co-editor of ‘Autistic Phenomena and Unrepresented States: Explorations in the Emergence of Self
‘Nicola Abel Hirsch has written a short, comprehensive new book on Bion, encompassing and interweaving his life and the progression of his work from the first to the final books and papers. Her extensive knowledge and profound understanding of Bion’s immense contribution to psychoanalysis makes her the ideal author for this book. The book is a pleasure to read; we feel her deeply engaged presence throughout, as if in a vivid dialogue with Bion in which she is always trying to understand him better. The compactness of the format consistently avoids over-simplification; one is left with an experience of fluidity and integration, and a sense of satisfaction for having been offered an accomplished, lively portrait of Bion the man and Bion the thinker.’
Ignês Sodré, author of Imaginary Existences: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Phantasy, Fiction, Dreams and Daydreams
Spotlight: Works inspired by W. R. Bion
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ed. Jennifer Langham
Contemporary Object Relations in Los Angeles: Building on the Work of the London Kleinians
ed. Jennifer Langham
Phoenix are winners!
Phoenix are winners! We’re thrilled to have received the Nick Robinson Newcomer Award at the Independent Publishers Guild Awards 2023!
This is an incredible achievement and we’re so proud to have our hard work, and that of our authors, acknowledged. Here’s to continuing success into the future!🥂
In case you missed it: listen to the new ‘Firing the Mind’ podcast!
We’ve now launched our new podcast, ‘Firing the Mind’!
The episodes will feature our authors in conversation to bring psychoanalytic ideas to a wider audience.
Our first episode features two first-time authors: Jayne Hankinson and Nilofer Kaul. Their discussion ranges around creation myths, minus links, and other themes and topics explored in their debut works.
In First Thoughts: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Beginnings, Jayne Hankinson applies psychoanalytic theory to enable a deeper understanding of the creation myths that exist for each and every one of us, building on the traditions established by the visionary W. R. Bion to present a philosophical and spiritual odyssey to inspire and enjoy.
Nilofer Kaul’s Plato’s Ghost: Minus Links and Liminality in Psychoanalytic Practice brings together psychoanalytic and literary theory, case vignettes, fiction, history of ideas, and science and culture to expand commonly used terms such as regret, candour, autonomy, and parasitism and further the conversation between disciplines.
Our recent releases
Events for your calendar
15 April: Book launch: We Don’t Speak of Fear: Large Group Identity, Societal Conflict and Collective Trauma
OPUS will host this online book launch for this compelling collection from the International Dialogue Initiative (IDI). Get your copy here.
15 April: A trauma-informed workshop: Working with traumatic stress held in the body
Wimbledon Guild Counselling host this body-based trauma-informed workshop with Lorna Evans. The workshop will illuminate the unconscious and non verbal phenomena in the process of working with traumatic stress held in the body, and help participants gain confidence in noticing where these healing tools can be integrated creatively into practice, both in person and online.
25 April: The Psychotherapy of Habitual Worry, Repetitive Fantasizing, and Obsession
In this online workshop Richard Erskine will draw on object relations and integrative approaches to present a six-point Treatment Plan for the psychotherapy of clients who engage in obsession, habitual worrying, and repetitive fantasizing. View our books from Richard Erskine here.
Dive deeper into the topic at the 2-day in-person conference in May – see below for details.
13 May: Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute 2023 Gala
Held in person and online, the gala will feature special guest Salman Akhtar and his forthcoming Selected Papers. Get your set of these ten stunning hardback volumes here.
16 May–25 July: The Political Mind Series 2023
David Morgan will chair these seminars exploring contemporary issues such as the pandemic, racism, totalitarian thinking and dangers to democracy, as well as the NHS, the market economy, the climate crisis, and gender and sexuality. View the Political Mind book series here.
17 May: Discussion of ‘The Analyst’s Torment’
The Freud Museum will host author Dr Dhwani Shah in discussion with psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Dr Aisha Abbasi about his debut publication The Analyst’s Torment: Unbearable Mental States in Countertransference.
25–26 May: Shame, Obsession & Habitual Worrying: A Perspective from Relational and Integrative Psychotherapy
Dr Richard Erskine presents this in-person workshop in London which uses lecture, case-discussions and live demonstrations to look at the interpersonal and intrapersonal dynamics of shame and the psychological defence of self-righteousness. Erskine will present a six-point Treatment Plan for clients who engage in obsession, habitual worrying, and repetitive fantasizing. View our books from Richard Erskine here.
4 – 5 November: Unleashing Otto Rank: From Interpretation to Experience
The Existential Humanistic Institute present the first ever international Otto Rank conference. It will re-introduce the legacy, focus, and implications of Rank’s genius for a new generation of Depth Psychologists. The conference features eight speakers representing a wide range of perspectives on Rank, coupled with experiential sessions where speakers and audience interact.
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