Searching for Bion: Cogitations, a new Clinical Diary à la Ferenczi?Footnote¹

1 This article was originally presented at the International Centennial Conference on the Work of W.R. Bion held in Turin on 17th of July 1997, and was originally published in slightly different versions in Italian in Lavorare con Bion (Bion Talamo, Borgogno and Merciai, Citation1998a) and in English in W.R. Bion: Between Past and Future, edited by Parthenope Bion Talamo, Franco Borgogno, and Silvio A. Merciai (published by Karnac Books in Citation1998b). The authors thank Karnac Books for the kind permission to reprint it.

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