(p. pr.) The physiological individual, characterized by definiteness and independence of function, in distinction from the morphological individual or morphon.
Example Sentences:
(1) I relate this clinical observation to the idea of non-attachment as found in spiritual tradition, and I draw on the work of Bion and Matte Blanco to locate these ideas within psychoanalytic theory.
(2) In this research we examined the relationships among cognitive styles using the categorization of Bion and styles of modulation of emotional behavior (hostile content) explored with the Gottschalk, et al.
(3) This phenomenon is interpreted in the framework of an ongoing intergroup interaction among patients and between patients and staff, as conceptualized in the Tavistock Model propounded by Bion.
(4) There are the medical Jungians who have fused psychoanalysis with other traditions, such as Klein, Winnicott, Bion, Langs, Kohut and others, who express Jung and the healing process in technical, scientific terms.
(5) Clinical vignettes illustrate the lack of such empathy, and readings are suggested that enhance our approach to learning this skill, borrowing especially from Kohut and Bion.
(6) Bion is an NHS consultant in intensive care medicine and chief investigator of the high-intensity specialist-led acute care and seven-day services (Hislac) project at Birmingham University.
(7) The development of British object-relations theory over the past twenty years can be viewed as containing the beginnings of an exploration of a realm of experience that lies outside of the states of being addressed by Klein, Winnicott, Fairbairn and Bion.
(8) The first experiment was conducted by Bion & Rickman.
(9) The author discusses the interactional process between the chief resident and ward staff, with reference to Bion's theory of group functioning.
(10) I link this situation with Bion's concept of 'minus K'.
(11) Under license from Goodyear, this same polymer has been manufactured by Lord Corporation for the hinge portion of finger joint prostheses using the tradename Bion.
(12) Since most of the patients who attend for psychiatric consultation at a clinic are little motivated for psychotherapy, analytic group therapy was attempted, with basis on studies on psychological genetics, on groups management, and on the theories of Freud, Klein and Bion.
(13) The aim of this study was to investigate the validity of Bion's hypothesis of valence and the significance of (DSM-III) diagnoses for inpatient group behavior.
(14) Rat skin was deprived of epidermis and the wound was exposed to ions generated with Bion 80 apparatus, for 3 h, just after wounding, only once.
(15) All verbal statements (approximately 17,000) from 91 patients in 75 small group therapy sessions were assessed according to Group Emotionality Rating System, which contains the (Bion) categories of dependency, fight, flight and pairing.
(16) Drawing upon the work of Bion and Kernberg, a specific means for the induction of psychosis is suggested, involving primitive splitting and the projection of "all bad" self-object constellations within a group setting.
(17) In particular, those who were relatively less hostile presented higher frequencies of processes classified by Bion as D2, which are characterized by an attitude of expectancy and waiting, with a tendency to defend internal psychological themas.
(18) For Bion, Faith is a proper primordial and developed response to catastrophe.
(19) For Bion the self is born, evolves and dissolves with a sense of catastrophe.
(20) Culture has been described as contributing to aspects of internalized psychic structure (Horney), to the maintenance of that structure (Bion), and to its members' performance of ongoing functions of mirroring and idealizing (Kohut).