Introduction to E. Pichon Rivière’s ‘The Link and the Theory of the Three Ds (Depositant, Depository, and Deposited): Role and Status’ by E. Pichon Rivière

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Notes

1. García Marquez is the Colombian author of ‘Hundred Years of Solitude’ a prime example of magic realism – a binary world were magic exists in the reality of ordinary life.

2. Northfield Hospital (Birmingham, England) is where, in 1942, Bion and Rickman applied the principles of psychoanalytic group dynamics to run a military psychiatric unit.

3. Hospicio de las Mercedes (renamed the Hospital Interdisciplinario Psicoasistencial José Tiburcio Borda) is the oldest and most remarkable psychiatric hospital in Argentina. During his years at the hospital Pichon introduced the field model and the group dynamic theory to his work. Also during these years he developed the conceptual foundations of his School of Social Psychology that continues today with his research and didactic work in Buenos Aires.

4. Residential meetings that meet in Leicester UK, organized by the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations.

5. Here, we are using Bion's dynamic differentiation between the Basic Assumptions group and the Work Group.