# Wilfred Bion

English psychoanalyst who extended Kleinian theory through work with psychotic patients and developed innovative conceptual tools including the Grid.

**Lived:** 1897–1979 (b. Mathura, North-Western Provinces, India)
**Nationality:** English
**Training:** Psychoanalytic training (Melanie Klein tradition)
**Affiliation:** British Psychoanalytical Society; Kleinian psychoanalysis

## Key works

- *Attention and Interpretation* (1970)
- *The Grid*