Rediscovering Bion and Rickman's leaderless group projects

This contribution highlights the relevance of Conci's paper in understanding the ideas devised by Bion and Rickman during the Second World War. Rickman's letters to Bion, in particular, are read as documents that shed a very useful light on the paper that originated the tradition of the so-called Leicester Conferences: Wilfred Bion's “The leaderless group project.”