COVER -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE Why we can't call ourselves Bionians (1987): notes on the life and work of W. R. Bion -- CHAPTER TWO Psychoanalysis is a "poppy field" (1988): "vision" in analysis -- a divertissement about the vertex -- CHAPTER THREE Ps= D (1981) -- CHAPTER FOUR The role of the group with regard to the "unthinkability" of nuclear war (1987) -- CHAPTER FIVE On "non-therapeutic" groups (1989): the use of the "task" as a defence against anxieties -- CHAPTER SIX Warum Krieg? (1990): the Freud-Einstein correspondence in the context of psychoanalytic social thought -- CHAPTER SEVEN Aggressiveness-bellicosity and belligerence (1991): passing from the mental state to active behaviour -- CHAPTER EIGHT The creation of mental models (1992): basic and ephemeral models -- CHAPTER NINE Experiences in Groups revisited (1992) -- CHAPTER TEN Some notes on the theories of structure and mental functioning underlying A Memoir of the Future by W. R. Bion (1993): festschrift for Francesco Corrao -- CHAPTER ELEVEN From free-floating attention to dream work-α (1993) -- CHAPTER TWELVE Inside and outside the transference: more versions of the same story (1995)-or: history versus geography? -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN The concept of the individual in the work of W. R. Bion, with particular reference to Cogitations (1996) -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN The two sides of the caesura (1996) -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN Bion and the group: knowing, learning, teaching (1996) -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN Bion's contribution to psychoanalysis (1996) -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Bion: a Freudian innovator (1997) -- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Dreams (1998) -- CHAPTER NINETEEN From formless to form (1998) -- CHAPTER TWENTY Laying low and saying (almost) nothing (1998) -- REFERENCES -- FURTHER READING -- INDEX.