Beckett and Bion: The (Im)Patient Voice in Psychotherapy and Literature
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 2013
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 256
- Category :
Culture and Psychoanalysis - Category 2 :
Individual Psychotherapy - Catalogue No : 33422
- ISBN 13 : 9781780491479
- ISBN 10 : 1780491476
About the Author(s)
Ian Miller is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, practicing and writing in Dublin, Ireland, where he also leads clinical study/reading groups. He is the author of Defining Psychoanalysis: Achieving a Vernacular Expression, On Minding and Being Minded: Experiencing Bion and Beckett, and co-author of Beckett and Bion: The (Im)patient Voice in Psychotherapy and Literature (with Kay Souter).
Kay Souter is a literary critic and educator, and has taught English literature at universities in Australia for over thirty years. For the last seven years, she has worked as Associate Dean Academic at La Trobe University, and has recently moved into institutional learning development. In the 1980s she decided to learn more about psychoanalysis and was introduced to the work of W.R. Bion, whose work not only resonated for her but also allowed her to explain Samuel Beckett to the drama students she was working with at the time. She has published widely on psychoanalysis and representations of the family, and her work on Bion has allowed her to work on learning space development of recent years.