Negative Hallucinosis in Wilfred Bions Theory of Transformat... - 9781032797922

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Negative Hallucinosis in Wilfred Bions Theory of TransformationsOn Finding Ones Ghost\nAuthor(s): Rodrigo Barahona\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032797922, 978-1032797922\nSynopsis\nIn this illuminating volume, Rodrigo Barahona takes up the question of transformations in hallucinosis in Wilfred Bions work.\n\nThe book discusses how the analysts functioning, his receptivity and ability to make sense out of what is unconsciously occurring between himself and the patient, and the ability to find words to represent itthe basic psychoanalytic taskis enhanced when the distinction between two basic types of transformations in hallucinosis can be borne in mind: transformations in positive hallucinosis and transformations in negative hallucinosis. In the psychoanalytic literature, this distinction has not been formally established, with the general term transformations in hallucinosis used for both processes. This bo.