Thinking Under Fire: Bion for Today

Thinking Under Fire: Bion for Today
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Thinking Under Fire: Bion for Today

Celebrating the Publication of the Complete Works on PEP


 A UCL Psychoanalysis Unit Conference in Collaboration with Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing
 
Date: Saturday 27 - Sunday 28 June 2026
 
Location: In Person at Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health - UCL, and Online via Zoom
 
About
Bion completed his medical training at University College Hospital and trained as a psychoanalyst with the British Psychoanalytic Society, but he was born in India, spent the last decade of his life in California, and his work continues to have a global influence nearly forty years after his death. The publication of his Complete Works on PEP will increase this impact further. Join us this June to participate in our exploration of the ongoing significance of Bion’s contributions in a world where thinking is more than ever under fire.
 
Speakers
 
Bion’s Cogitations 1958-1979: seven subjects in his private notes
Nicola Abel-Hirsch (British Psychoanalytical Society)
 
Evolution and Turbulence in Bion's Thought
Giuseppe Civitarese (Italian Psychoanalytic Society, American Psychoanalytic Association, and International Psychoanalytic Association)
 
The Living Thread: Hope and aliveness in Bion’s work
Jani Santamaria Linares (A- Santamaria Psychoanalysis Mexico Association)
 
Bion and Mawson - Memoirs of the past, present and future
Tobias Jenkins, and Donna Savery (Tavistock Clinic, IGA, and Daseinsanalytic Institute Zurich)
 
Intuitions as Evidence: Bion's valedictory paper ‘Evidence’
David Taylor (British Psychoanalytical Society)
 
Exploring Bion’s model of the mind from an infinite-finite perspective 
Rudi Vermote (Belgian Psychoanalytical Society)
 
To find out more and to register: Thinking Under Fire: Bion for Today, Celebrating the Publication of the Complete Works on PEP | Psychoanalysis Unit - UCL – University College London
When
27/06/2026 - 28/06/2026
Where
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