Attention and Creation

This intrepid work combines Bion's work and insights with the author's own practices. It starts with a brief introduction to Bion himself the launches into the book's main thesis, demonstrating how Bion articulates his theories and systems of the transformation of the immaterial elements which constitute the psyche. Egenfeldt Nelson elucidates both his and Bion's views on therapeutic techniques. Touching on the routes available to those wishing to become therapists, it also discusses the demands this may place on those in a position to help, be they teachers, supervisors or more experienced fellow therapists. The implicit background of this book consists of the more optimistic approaches to creating mindforms that improve the conditions of humanity, which derive from the legends of Christ and the Buddha and the experiences of mystics in both Eastern and Western cultures, as well as from psychoanalytic thought.

Fin Egenfeldt-Nielsen is a psychotherapist working in private practice in Troense and Copenhagen, Denmark. He has been a member of the Ethics Committee of the Danish Association for Psychotherapists (Psykoterapeut Foreningen) since 2000, and chairman of the Board of the Educational Committee since 2008.