Bion's Emotional Links

In Bion's Emotional Links, Judy K. Eekhoff explores emotion as a bridge between unrepresented and represented states, highlighting the importance of both internal emotional and external relationships in the development of the mind.

Judy K. Eekhoff is an International Psychoanalytic Association-certified training and supervising psychoanalyst in Seattle, Washington, USA. She is the author of Bion and Primitive Mental States: Trauma and the Symbiotic Link (2021) and Trauma and Primitive Mental States: An Object Relations Perspective (2019).

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Essence of Being 2. Love, Hate, and Curiosity: Bion's Model of the Development of the Mind 3. Body as Dream Space 4. In Defense of Hope 5. Premonition: Hope and Dread in the Analytic Hour 6. Psychic Equivalency as an Aspect of Symbiosis 7. The Primordial Symphony of Life: Truth and the Body 8. Perceptual Identification as Analytic Receptivity of Dissociative States 9. Between the Real and the Imaginary: Truth and Lies in the Psychoanalytic Encounter 10. The Perversion of Truth and the Disruption of Passion 11. Body Relations and the Black Hole 12. Missing Emotional Links 13. Time, Space, and Dimensionality as Somatic Representations 14. Catastrophe and Creativity: From Fragmentation to Emergence