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Containing States of Mind • Wilfred Bion's insights into the analytic process have had a profound influence on how psychoanalysts and psychotherapists understand emotional change and pathological mental states. One of his most influential ideas concerns the notion that we need the minds of others to develop our own emotional and cognitive capacities. In Containing States of Mind, Duncan Cartwright explores and develops some of the implications that Bion's container model has for clinical practice. He argues that the analyst or therapist best fulfils a containing function by negotiating irreconcilable internal tensions between his role as 'dream object' and 'proper object'. The container. | Containing States of Mind Wilfred Bion s insights into the analytic process have had a profound influence on how psychoanalysts and psychotherapists understand emotional change and pathological mental states. One of his most influential ideas concerns the notion that we need the minds of others to develop our own emotional and cognitive capacities. In Containing States of Mind Duncan Cartwright explores and develops some of the implications that Bion s container model has for clinical practice. He arglies that the analyst or therapist best fulfils a containing function by negotiating irreconcilable internal tensions between his role as dream object and proper object . The container model is also used to illustrate different modes of interaction in the analytic field the nature of particular pathological states and some of the key dilemmas faced in attempting to make unbearable mental states more bearable. As well as addressing key theoretical problems Containing Slates of Mind is a clinical text that renders complex ideas accessible and useful for psychotherapeutic and analytic practice and as such will be essential reading for all those involved in the fields of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Duncan Cartwright is head of the Centre for Applied Psychology University of Kwa-Zulu Natal South Africa. He is in part-time private practice and is the author of Psychoanalysis Violence and Rage-Type Murder Murdering Minds Routledge 2002. Containing States of Mind Exploring Bion s Container Model in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Duncan Cartwright IJ Routledge Taylor 81 Francis Group LONDON AND NEW YORK xc Zfđ Cỉií Ọ First published 2010 by Routledge 27 Church Road Hove East Sussex BN3 2FA Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 270 Madison Avenue New York NY 10016 Routledge is on imprint of the Taylor Francis Group an In forma business Copyright 2010 Duncan Cartwright Typeset in Times by Garfield Morgan Swansea West Glamorgan Printed and bound in