Wilfred bion biography of albert einstein

British theorist of psychoanalysis, co-founder of group analysis

Wilfred Ruprecht Bion (1897-1979) was born in Mathura, India, as the son of a British colonial civil servant.

During World War I, he served in the British Army’s Tank Corps. After the war, he studied history at Queen’s College, Oxford, and medicine at University College London, where he graduated in 1930. He then joined the London-based Tavistock Clinic for psychotherapeutic training – during which he treated, among others, the writer Samuel Beckett.

Wilfred bion biography of albert einstein

Serving as a medical officer at Northfield Military Hospital during World War II, he developed a recruitment test for officer candidates and initiated the “Northfield Experiment”, a minimally structured group setting for treating traumatized soldiers.

Bion returned to Tavistock Clinic in 1950, where he worked as a group psychotherapist and later became head of department (1952). Following his time as president of the British Psychoanalytical Society (1962-1965), he held p