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BION WORLDWIDE ONLINE SEMINARS

2026 – 2027

Bion’s work has changed the landscape of contemporary psychoanalysis. At the age of seventy, Bion emigrated to California, beginning his international travels; he traveled to destinations in Latin America, North America, and Europe to give Lectures, Seminars, and Supervisions. The various events were recorded and later transcribed. He also wrote two volumes of autobiography and a biographical novel, A Memoir of the Future.

Following Bion’s evolving thinking, these Online Seminars offer an integrated view of the dialectic interplay between Bion’s earlier writings and his later ones, reflecting the perpetual movement that Bion tries to depict between different modes of apprehending reality. The Seminars are structured in a way that will inform and interest the participants. For readers who know Bion’s work well, we invite you to revisit his work accompanied by outstanding speakers from different geographical regions.

JUNE 7, 2026 –

GETTING TO KNOW MY FATHER: A MEMOIR OF WILFRED BION

Presented by our  honoring guest – JULIAN BION

Julian Bion is the Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at the University of Birmingham, and was consultant in intensive care medicine at University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB) from 1987 until 2017.  He stepped down from clinical duties in 2017, and continues as the Freedom To Speak Up Guardian for staff at UHB.  He was President of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (2004-2006), and Foundation Dean of the UK Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (2010-13), obtaining speciality status for intensive care medicine in 2011.  He was awarded the BUPA Medical Foundation Doctor of the Year Award in 1986; has received the Shubin Weil International Award for Excellence 2004 (Society Critical Care Medicine USA), four Honorary Life Memberships; the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine Medal 2012: the Intensive Care Society’s President’s Award (2014), the Gold Medal of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (2017), the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Intensive Care Society (2017), the Gold Medal of the UK Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (2018) and was appointed to the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours (2018).  He is married with two children.

*We highly appreciate Julian Bion for opening the Bion Worldwide Online Seminars 2026-27. We will announce the remaining available scholarships, both partial and complete, for those who want to attend the Bion Worldwide Online Seminars 2026-27. Please get in touch with us.

** Only this Conference will be simultaneously translated into Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese.

SEPTEMBER 27, 2026 –

BION IN BRAZIL –

The Seminar will present the translation and discussion of previously unpublished recordings of Bion´’ clinical supervision in São Paulo, Brazil. offer readers the opportunity to follow Bion as he expresses his ideas across 13 supervisions during his four visits to Brazil. Bion’s comments reflect his evolving interest in working with the undifferentiated layers of the mind and in applying his intuitive approach.

Presented by

GISEL BRITO (BRAZIL)

Gisèle de Mattos Brito is a psychoanalyst, Full Member and Training Analyst at the Brazilian Psychoanalytical Societies of São Paulo (SBPSP) and Minas Gerais (SBPMG), both affiliated with the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA). She teaches at the SBPMG Institute. Since 2009, she has coordinated the Study Group on W. R. Bion’s Supervisions at SBPSP. She is the author of A mente primordial: Entre luz e sombra (Blucher, 2023), currently in press for publication in English by Routledge. She is co-editor of Bion in Brazil – Supervisions and Commentaries Edited by Karnac, 2017 and Blucher, 2018. Co-editor of The Clinical Thinking of W. R. Bion in Brazil: Supervisions and Seminars (Routledge, Wilfred R. Bion Studies Book Series). She has authored several scientific papers published nationally and internationally in psychoanalytic books and journals.

HOWARD LEVINE  (USA)

Howard B. Levine, is member of APSA, PINE, the Contemporary Freudian Society and Pulsion, on the faculty of NYU Post-Doc’s Contemporary Freudian Track, on the Editorial Board of the IJP and Psychoanalytic Inquiry, editor-in-chief of the Routledge Wilfred Bion Studies Book Series and in private practice in Brookline, Massachusetts. He is the author of Transformations de l’Irreprésentable (Ithaque 2019) and Affect, Representation and Language: Between the Silence and the Cry (Routledge 2022) and editor of The Post-Bionian Field Theory of Antonino Ferro (Routledge 2022) and The Freudian Matrix of Andre Green. Towards A Psychoanalysis For The 21st Century by André Green (Routledge/IPA forthcoming). His co-edited books include Unrepresented States and the Construction of Meaning (Karnac 2013); On Freud’s Screen Memories (Karnac 2014); The Wilfred Bion Tradition (Karnac 2016); Bion in Brazil. (Karnac 2017); Andre Green Revisited: Representation and the Work of the Negative (Karnac 2018); Covidian Life (2021 Phoenix); Psychoanalysis of the Psychoanalytic Frame Revisited: A New Look at Bleger’s Classical Work (Routledge/IPA, 2022); and Autistic Phenomena and Unrepresented States: Explorations in the Emergence of Self (Phoenix 2023).

OCTOBER 4, 2026–

BION´S TRILOGY –

These names “Trilog”, refer to Wilfred’s Bion Trilogy because the books published between the 1960s and 1970s represent the development of his core ideas in Learning From Experience (1962), Elements of Psychoanalysis (1963), and Attention and Interpretation (1970). These three books are key components of Bion’s “later” work. They are considered foundational texts in the development of his unique approach to psychoanalysis, which he based on his clinical experience with patients, particularly those in psychotic states.

Presented by THOMAS HELSCHER (USA)

Thomas P. Helscher received a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Virginia and a Psy.D. in Psychoanalysis from the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies, where he is a Training and Supervising Analyst, Past President, and on the faculty He is in private practice in Santa Monica, CA, and a member of the University of California Interdisciplinary Psychoanalytic Consortium, and on the board of the Soldiers Project.

NOVEMBER  15, 2026 –

LOVE, HATE AND KNOWLEDGE –

In Wilfred Bion’s work, Love, Hate, and Knowledge (LHK) represent three fundamental and intertwined emotional links that drive human experience and connection and are notated, respectively, as “L,” “H,” and “K.” These emotions are psychic stimuli — the constitutional or instinctual givens — which the individual brings to their experience. Many of our traumatized patients, who are successful professionally, have failed personal relationships. They seem unable to access the linking emotions of love, hate, and curiosity. The author discusses how both the patient and the analyst struggle with these emotions as they emerge in the psychoanalytic experience.

Presented by JUDY EEKHOFF (USA)

Judy K. Eekhoff, PhD FIPA is an IPA certified training and supervising psychoanalyst and a licensed child psychologist who has a private practice in Seattle, Washington, USA. She is a full faculty member of Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, of Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and of COR Northwest Family Development Center. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters and of two books: Trauma & Primitive Mental States, An Object Relations Perspective and Bion and Primitive Mental States: Trauma and the Symbiotic Link.

DECEMBER  6, 2026 –

BION IN THE CONSULTING ROOM –

The Seminar addresses the long-unanswered question of Bion’s clinical and supervisory techniques and examines how Bion’s conceptual model and clinical practices informed his theoretical work.

The Seminar will discuss the four distinctive periods of Bion’s clinical and supervisorial work in chronological order: the group period of the 1940s; the period of the psychosis papers in the 1950s; the epistemological period of the early 1960s; and, finally, the period of his international group seminars in the late 1960s and 1970s.

Presented by NICOLA ABEL.HIRSCH (UK)

Nicola Abel-Hirsch is a training and supervisor analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society and works in full-time psychoanalytical practice. She is the author of Bion 365 Quotes and she has given theoretical and clinical papers on Bion in the US, Taiwan, Mexico, the US and Europe. Her recent publication is: Bion, an Introduction . Phoenix Publishing House Ltd., 2023

2027

 JANUARY 17, 2027 –

THE OTHER SIDE OF GENIUS –

The Other Side of Genius gives us a glimpse of Bion as a remarkable man, as his family knew him: those who met him only through his professional work will find here the duplicate characteristic threads of humour, concern for truth, and flashes of insight that were the hallmark of his work in psychoanalysis.

Presented by

JANI SANTAMARIA LINARES (MEXICO)

TIM SMITH (UK)

Dr Tim Smith is a member of the Association of Child Psychotherapists in the UK. He trained at the Tavistock Centre, where he is now a visiting lecturer. Clinically, he works with child and adolescent patients in the National Health Service and in private practice in East London. His interest in Bion’s autobiographies stems from the time he spent listening to how children and adolescents find ways to tell the stories of what’s happened to them and those around them. He has published two papers on his research on The Long Weekend: ‘Half alive, half dead boys: sexuality and censorship in Wilfred Bion’s ‘The Long Weekend’.’  Journal of Child Psychotherapy. And, The tiger skin on the banister (and other stories): internal dialogues and parallel autobiographical process in a reading of Wilfred Bion’s ‘The Long Weekend, 1897-1919: Part of a Life’. Life Writing: A film essay, ‘A fall from the stars: a critical psychoanalytic reading of James Gray’s ‘Ad Astra (to the stars)’ is forthcoming in the Journal of Child Psychotherapy.

FEBRUARY 7, 2027 –

BION´S VERTICES ON TRUTHS AND LIES

The Seminar will explore and discuss the notions of truth and lies from a variety of perspectives, including within an individual’s emotional development and psychic growth, and will address the contemporary clinical, theoretical, and cultural relevance of Bion’s thinking.

Presented by TOMASZ FORTUNA

Tomasz is member of the British Psychoanalytical Society and Hanna Segal Institue for Psychoanalytic Studies. He had worked as a psychiatrist in the NHS foe sixteen years and, currently, he works at the Portman Clinic and is in private psychoanalytical practice. He edited the book Bion´s Vertices on Thruths and Lies, Routledge, 2025.

MARCH 7, 2027 –

A PARIS SEMINAR –

This Seminar, was held in Paris on  10 July 1978.

Presented by ALAN COLAM (UK)

Alan Colam is a Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalyst, a Full Member of the British Psychoanalytic Association. Born in South Africa, he lives in London where he is a lead clinician on an NHS Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Service and he has a private practice. He teaches and supervises at the Tavistock Centre and on psychoanalytic trainings in the UK and South Africa. His interests are in Kleinian and post-Kleinian theory and practice.

ABRIL 18, 2027 –

THE INNER ATTITUDE OF THE ANALYST

Presented by RUDI VERMOTE (BELGIUM)

RUDI VERMOTE is a Training and supervising analyst and past president of the Belgian Society of Psychoanalysis.
Professor Emeritus University of Louvain.
Member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis.
He is sponsor of the Taiwanese Psychoanalytic Study group and was co-chair of the International New Group Committee of the IPA.
Honorary Member of the Psychoanalytic Center California.
Was a visiting professor at Kyoto University.
Was for more than 8 years member of the Clinical Research Committee of the IPA.
Teaching at the Winnicott Center Tel Aviv.
Published ‘Reading Bion’, in the teaching series of Routledge (2018) and papers on the application of Bion’s work and clinical research.

CHAIR – JANI SANTAMARIA LINARES (MEXICO)

 Jani Santamaría PhD is a Training Analyst and Supervisor of children, adolescent and adults of the Mexican Psychoanalytic Association (APM) and is member of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APSA), Director of A-Santamaría Psychoanalysis Mexico A.C.

She is a Latin American Board member of the IPA (2019 -2021) and (2021-2023)

Chair of the International Bion Conference Mexico 2022 and member of the International Advisory Committee: Routledge Bion Studies Book Series; member of the International Committee of Spanish Language Psychoanalysts. ExDirector of Community and Culture for the Latin American Federation of Psychoanalysis, FEPAL (2016-2018)

– She has authored numerous articles, she is co-editor of the book “Autistic Phenomena and Unrepresented States” (Phoenix, 2022), co-editor of Bion Seminars in A-Santamaría Association (Routledge, forthcoming), editor of Dreams, Workdream and the Oneiric Dimensions of the Mind.  Editor of the books “Jugando con el pensamiento de Winnicott en Latinoamérica” and “Covid 19 “

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