Please save the date – November 21st, 2026 for our upcoming WCPSI SCIENTIFIC MEETING.
“Negative Hallucinosis in Wilfred Bion’s
Theory of Transformations, On Finding One’s Ghost,”
with Rodrigo Barahona.
November 21st 2026
Time: 9.30am to 12pm PT
Moderator: Darren Thompson, MD
Via Zoom
About Rodrigo Barahona: Rodrigo Barahona, Psya. D., is a faculty member at The Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is on the board of directors of the Boston Group for Psychoanalytic Studies and of the Psychoanalytic Quarterly, where he is also the Book Review Editor. Dr. Barahona serves on the editorial boards of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, the Psychoanalytic Quarterly, and formerly on the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He has a private psychoanalytic practice in Brookline, Massachusetts.
About the event: The analyst’s functioning, receptivity, and ability to find words for what is occurring unconsciously between themselves and their patient, is enhanced when the distinction between two basic types of transformations in hallucinosis can be borne in mind: transformations in positive and in negative hallucinosis. In the Bionian literature, this distinction has not been formally made, although the two forms are described using the general term of transformations in hallucinosis.
Registration will open soon. We hope you will mark your calendars—we look forward to having you join us.