Maps for Psychoanalytic Exploration brings together the author's main works, until now published only in Italian. They are made available to a wider readership in this volume through a translation into English by Shaun Whiteside, supported by the generosity of the members of the Melanie Klein Trust.

Preface , Foreword , Introduction , Why we can’t call ourselves Bionians (1987): notes on the life and work of W. R. Bion , Psychoanalysis is a “poppy field” (1988): “vision” in analysis; a divertissement about the vertex , Ps ? D (1981) , The role of the group with regard to the “unthinkability” of nuclear war (1987) , On “non-therapeutic” groups (1989): the use of the “task” as a defence against anxieties , Warum Krieg? (1990): the Freud-Einstein correspondence in the context of psychoanalytic social thought , Aggressiveness-bellicosity and belligerence (1991): passing from the mental state to active behaviour , The creation of mental models (1992): basic and ephemeral models , Experiences in Groups revisited (1992) , Some notes on the theories of structure and mental functioning underlying A Memoir of the Future by W. R. Bion (1993): festschrift for Francesco Corrao , From free-floating attention to dreamwork-? (1993) , Inside and outside the transference: more versions of the same story (1995)—or: history versus geography? , The concept of the individual in the work of W. R. Bion, with particular reference to Cogitations (1996) , The two sides of the caesura (1996) , Bion and the group: knowing, learning, teaching (1996) , Bion’s contribution to psychoanalysis (1996) , Bion: a Freudian innovator (1997) , Dreams (1998) , From formless to form (1998) , Laying low and saying (almost) nothing (1998)