Visiting Professor Weekend

Program Title:Introduction to the work of Nicola Abel-Hirsch, FIPA
Date:Thursday, April 24, 2025
Time:07:30pm – 09:00pm
Location:Online via Zoom
Presenter:Peter Goldberg, PhD
Program Fee:This event is free.

Please join us for an introduction to Visiting Professor Weekend. Peter Goldberg will discuss the major concepts in Bion’s work, as well as in his paper “Container/contained transformed.”

Program Schedule

Thursday, April 24, 7:30pm – 9:00pm
Introduction to the work of Nicola Abel-Hirsch, FIPA
Peter Goldberg, PhD (presenter)

Saturday, May 3, 10:00am – 12:00pm
A morning with Nicola Abel-Hirsch, FIPA
Bion’s Technique
Nicola Abel-Hirsch, FIPA (presenter)

Sunday, May 4, 10:00am – 11:30am
Professor’s Choice On “Container/contained transformed”
Nicola Abel-Hirsch, FIPA (presenter)

Nicola Abel-Hirsch, FIPA, is a training and supervising psychoanalyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society. She has presented on Bion’s work in the UK, Taiwan (annually 2005-2012), the USA, and Europe. From 2013–2015 she was a visiting professor at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. Abel-Hirsch edited Hanna Segal’s last book Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (2007); is the author of Bion 365 Quotes (2019) and Bion: An Introduction (2023), and is a co-author of Bion in the Consulting Room: An Implicit Method of Clinical Inquiry (2024). Under the auspices of Understanding Primitive Mental States (Susan Finkelstein, Chair) she is currently presenting a series of seminars on Bion’s work.

Abel-Hirsch: 10 Quotes

In order to get a sense of Dr. Abel-Hirsch’s analytic attitude, here are 10 quotes from a recent event to launch her new book, Bion in the Consulting Room

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