PSYCHOLOGIST

Wilfred Bion

1897 - 1979

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Wilfred Ruprecht Bion DSO (; 8 September 1897 – 8 November 1979) was an influential English psychoanalyst, who became president of the British Psychoanalytical Society from 1962 to 1965. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilfred Bion has received more than 518,594 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Wilfred Bion is the 155th most popular psychologist (down from 142nd in 2019), the 340th most popular biography from India (down from 269th in 2019) and the most popular Indian Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Wilfred Bion ranks 155 out of 235Before him are Georgi Lozanov, Fritz Heider, Benjamin Spock, David Ausubel, Jonathan Haidt, and Franz Alexander. After him are Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, Julian Rotter, James J. Gibson, Reuven Feuerstein, Arthur Janov, and Edvard Moser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Wilfred Bion ranks 137Before him are Traicho Kostov, Xu Zhimo, Peter Högl, Nima Yooshij, Edith Head, and Georgios Grivas. After him are August Heissmeyer, Horace McCoy, Wilhelm Falley, Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Robert Ludvigovich Bartini, and Zhang Guotao. Among people deceased in 1979, Wilfred Bion ranks 100Before him are José María Velasco Ibarra, Joseph Alcazar, Léonide Massine, David Butler, Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia, and Agop Dilâçar. After him are Jean Rhys, Helmut Hasse, August Heissmeyer, Marcel L'Herbier, James J. Gibson, and Dolores Costello.

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In India

Among people born in India, Wilfred Bion ranks 340 out of 1,861Before him are Kumārila Bhaṭṭa (700), Rakesh Sharma (1949), Anish Kapoor (1954), Mulayam Singh Yadav (1939), Vikram Sarabhai (1919), and Lalu Prasad Yadav (1948). After him are Jim Corbett (1875), Sanjay Gandhi (1946), Pulakeshin II (610), Guru Hargobind (1595), Bhavabhuti (null), and Dadasaheb Phalke (1870).

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In India

Among psychologists born in India, Wilfred Bion ranks 1After him are V. S. Ramachandran (1951).