Spirituality and the Apophatic Way of Unknowing in Wilfred Bion

In this audio talk based on her recently published book, Dr Judith Pickering introduces the influences on Wilfred Bion’s theoretical advances in psychoanalysis. Influenced by his childhood in India, and subsequent experiences of separation, trauma and loss, Bion became interested in the healing power of a knowledge that was beyond words. Judith outlines the founding spiritual schism in psychoanalysis and traces the parallels between Bion’s thinking and the Christian Mystical Philosophical tradition.