Encountering Bion

Encountering Bion 
Friday 4th July 2025
6.00pm - 9.00pm (BST)

Hybrid - at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and online
Recording available for 1 week to all registered participants 
 

The unveiling of a bronze bust of Wilfred Bion by his son Julian will commemorate the seventy-five years since Bion’s election to membership of the British Society. This will be followed by two short papers 'The Imaginary Twin – Then and Now’, by Joseph Aguayo with discussant Bob Hinshelwood on Bion’s membership paper about a difficult analysis, and ‘Encountering Bion’, by Nicola Abel-Hirsch with discussant Jani Santamaria. The event will be chaired by Andrew Briggs.

Welcome | Vic Sedlak, President of the British Psychoanalytical Society
 

The development and realisation of the project | Introductions

Andrew Briggs, Clinical Associate of the British Psychoanalytical Society

Bob Hinshelwood, Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society

Jani Santamaria, Director of the A-Santamaría Association

Billie Bond, Member Royal Society of Sculptors and Member Society of Portrait Sculptors

Chair | Vic Sedlak, President of the British Psychoanalytical Society

Unveiling of the Bust | Julian Bion, OBE, Professor Emeritus, University of Birmingham
 

‘The Imaginary Twin – Then and Now’ | Joseph Aguayo, Director of the Regional Bion Symposium.

Discussant | Bob Hinshelwood, Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society

Chair | Andrew Briggs, Clinical Associate of the British Psychoanalytical Society

Break

‘Encountering Bion’ | Nicola Abel-Hirsch, Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society

Discussant | Jani Santamaria, Director of the A-Santamaria Association

Chair | Andrew Briggs, Clinical associate of the British Psychoanalytical Society

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