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| What is Wilfred Bion best known for? |
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| His concept of CONTAINMENT and METABOLIZATION |
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deals with the internal state of the adult/parent
-being sturdy enough to deal with another person's problems, as well as their own anxiety with facing someone else's problems. |
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| ability of parent to metabolize the problem of a child, then give it back in a way that the child can handle. |
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| Anxious child example of METABOLIZATION |
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| Anxious kid gives anxiety to parent-- parent metabolizes the out of control anxiety--- able to attend to the child by exploring the anxiety w/ them--- offer the anxiety back to the child in a way that his out of control bits can handle. |
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