1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781284303321

Titolo

Bion's legacy to groups [[electronic resource] ] : selected contributions from the International Centennial Conference on the Work of W.R. Bion : Turin, July 1997 / / edited by Parthenope Bion Talamo, Franco Borgogno, Silvio A. Merciai ; foreword by David Armstrong

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Karnac Books, 1998

ISBN

0-429-47249-8

1-283-06846-X

9786613068460

1-84940-260-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (129 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TalamoParthenope Bion

BorgognoFranco

MerciaiSilvio A

Disciplina

150.19/5092

616.89152

Soggetti

Group psychotherapy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Bion, 1897[-]1997, Torino, Centro torinese di psicoanalisi"--Half t.p.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-108) and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; CONTENTS; EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS; FOREWORD; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE The internal establishment; CHAPTER TWO Beyond Bion's Experiences in Groups: group relations research and learning; CHAPTER THREE Are basic assumptions instinctive?; CHAPTER FOUR Destructiveness and creativity in organizational life: experiencing the psychotic edge; CHAPTER FIVE Schizophrenia from a group perspective; CHAPTER SIX Oneness and Me-ness in the baG?; CHAPTER SEVEN An attempt to apply Bion's alpha- and beta-elements to processes in society at large; REFERENCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Bion's study of groups and group processes has the same quality as Freud's discovery of transference or Klein's work in child analysis. The way he saw the emotional life of the individual in the group, notably his own, opened up new territory for exploration, a going ""beyond the confines"", and this collection seeks to record a debt to that new exploration. 112 pages.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910817547903321

Autore

Chu Pey-Yi

Titolo

The life of permafrost : a history of frozen earth in russian and soviet science / / Pey-Yi Chu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, Ontario : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

1-4875-1425-5

1-4875-1424-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Disciplina

551.3840947

Soggetti

Frozen ground - Research

Soviet Union

Russia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: historicizing permafrost -- Mapping -- Building -- Defining -- Adapting -- Translating -- Epilogue: resurrecting.

Sommario/riassunto

"In the Anthropocene, the thawing of frozen earth due to global warming has drawn worldwide attention to permafrost. Contemporary scientists define permafrost as ground that maintains a negative temperature for at least two years. But where did this particular conception of permafrost originate, and what alternatives existed? The Life of Permafrost provides an intellectual history of permafrost, placing the phenomenon squarely in the political, social, and material context of Russian and Soviet science. Pey-Yi Chu shows that understandings of frozen earth were shaped by two key experiences in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. On one hand, the colonization and industrialization of Siberia nourished an engineering perspective on frozen earth that viewed the phenomenon as an aggregate physical structure: ground. On the other, a Russian and Soviet tradition of systems thinking encouraged approaching frozen earth as a process, condition, and space tied to planetary exchanges of energy and matter. Aided by the US militarization of the Arctic during the Cold War, the engineering view of frozen earth as an obstacle to construction became



dominant. The Life of Permafrost tells the fascinating story of how permafrost came to acquire life as Russian and Soviet scientists studied, named, and defined it."--