TY - BOOK ID - 77913703 TI - Taming wild thoughts AU - Bion, Wilfred R AU - Bion, Francesca PY - 1997 SN - 0429480830 1283125153 9786613125156 1849402205 9781849402200 1855751682 9781855751682 0429905602 0429919832 PB - London Karnac Books DB - UniCat KW - Psychoanalysis. KW - Psychology KW - Psychology, Pathological UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77913703 AB - Taming Wild Thoughts brings together previously unpublished works from two different periods of the author's life which are linked, as the author says in her introduction, by the concept of classifying and conceptualizing thought. The first paper, "The Grid", dates from 1963 and is a discussion of great clarity about one of the author's most widely-used conceptual tools; it predates his more discursive paper of the same title (published in Two Papers) by several years. As a teaching paper on this topic, this version of "The Grid" is without parallel, and will doubtless be of great value to all students of his work. The second part of the book consists of transcripts of two tape-recordings made by Bion in 1977. They underline his interest in "wild" or "stray" thoughts; and they provide an insight into his extraordinary sensibility at the time of A Memoir of the Future. ER -