Wilfred bion biography samples
•
Wilfred Bion
English psychoanalyst and psychiatrist
Wilfred Ruprecht BionDSO (; 8 September 1897 – 8 November 1979) was an influential English psychoanalyst, who became president of the British Psychoanalytical Society from 1962 to 1965.[1]
Early life and military service
[edit]Bion was born in Mathura, North-Western Provinces, India, and educated at Bishop's Stortford College in England.[2] After the outbreak of the First World War, he served in the Tank Corps as a tank commander in France, and was awarded both the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) (on 18 February 1918, for his actions at the Battle of Cambrai),[2][3] and the Croix de Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur.[4] He first entered the war zone on 26 June 1917,[5] and was promoted to temporary lieutenant on 10 June 1918,[6] and to acting captain on 22 March 1918, when he took command of a tank section,[7] he retained the rank when he
•
Wilfred Ruprecht Bion - EN
VERSIONE ITALIANA
The Group AnalysisMathura (Uttar Pradesh, then United Kingdom, now India), September 8, 1897Oxford (South East England, United Kingdom), November 8, 1979
by Pasquale Luca Quieto and Gabriele Romeo
Wilfred Ruprecht Bion came from a family of the English upper mittpunkt class resident in India. His father, Frederick Fleetwood Bion (Dacca, Dacca, then United Kingdom, now Bangla Desh, April 17, 1870 - Iver, South East England, February 16, 1949), was ledare engineer of the Irrigation Sector of the British Department of Public Works. He married Rhoda Salter Kemp (1869 - January 13, 1939) on October 24, 1896 in Monghyr (Bihar, then United Kingdom, now India). From this marriage Wilfred Ruprecht Bion was born in 1897 and Edna Bion in 1900. We do not have many other details about his family that he did not like at all. Of his father’s relatives in his biography he wrote that they were all crazy, insignificant and mean and that two of his
•
Wilfred Bion (1897-1979) was born in Muttra, northwest India, and was educated at boarding school in England - where he was unhappy, missing his parents, his Aya and the India he loved.
He fought in France in the Tank Regiment during the First World War and was awarded the DSO (Distinguished Service Order), and, by the French Government, the Légion d'Honneur.
After the war Bion took History at Queen's College, Oxford and later went on to study medicine at University College London. After qualifying as a doctor, he spent seven years at the Tavistock Clinic in London, training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. While there he saw Samuel Beckett for therapeutic interviews. In 1938 he began his first training analysis with John Rickman. This was brought to an end by the outbreak of the Second World War, during which Bion worked with traumatised soldiers in military hospitals.
Around 1946 Bion entered into training analysis with Melanie Klein, and he became a full Member of the Britis