Parthenope Bion Talamo is the eldest of W. R. Bion’s children. She was born in England, where she went to school. She holds a degree in Philosophy, having studied in Italy, at the Università degli Studi di Firenze. She works in full-time private practice as a psychoanalyst near Turin, Italy, being a member of the S.P.I. (Società Psicoanalitica Italiana) and of the I.P.A. She also has some experience in group therapy and has supervised the initial stages in setting up a non-residential therapeutic community in Florence for psychotic and borderline patients.

She has done some teaching of psychoanalytical students for the S.P.I. and has been entrusted in this accademic year [1997- 1998 ???] with a course for first year students (on Freud’s papers on technique); she will be applying for training analyst status in the near future. She was a member of the editorial board of the Rivista di Psicoanalisi for a number of years and contributed to a book on ‘writing psychoanalysis’ which was published in English. She has also done quite a lot of lecturing on Bion's work and given papers on her own analytical experience in several countries other than Italy (Switzerland, Brazil, U.K., Spain). As well as editing and translating many of W. R. Bion's books and papers into Italian, and preparing the Bion centennial conference together with a group of colleagues led (and spurred on) by Silvio A. Merciai, she has written several psychoanalytical papers, some of which are on Bion's work and have been published in English, for example in the Italian/English number of the Rivista di Psicoanalisi dedicated to Bion, and in the centennial issues of the British Journal of Psychotherapy and Journal of Melanie Klein and Object Relations.