Bion’s unique contributions to psychoanalysis are only now beginning to be fully
appreciated, particularly how his technique for interpreting the group
unconscious becomes the foundation for his work on “the science of at-one-ment.”
This talk invites attendees to join a pioneering project exploring the place and value of patient narrative in psychoanalytic discourse. Together we’ll consider excerpts from Joan K. Peters’ own memoir Untangling: A Memoir of Psychoanalysis, alongside narratives she is collecting for a forthcoming special issue of Psychoanalytic Inquiry on The Patient Experience.
Drawing on a decolonial perspective grounded in the work of Frantz Fanon, this workshop will work-through these tensions by articulating an integrative approach to case formulation and treatment that mentalizes the intrapsychic, interpersonal, and sociopolitical simultaneously.
