Marion Milner: The Life

ISBN-13: 9780415567374 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 234 str.

Emma Letley

Opis

Artist, poet, educationalist and autobiographer, Marion Milner is considered one of the most original of psychoanalytic thinkers whose life spanned a century of radical change. This biography of this extraordinary woman introduces Milner and her works to the reader through her family, colleagues and, above all through her books, charting their evolution and development as well as their critical reception and contribution to current 21st century debates and discourses.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments. Introduction. Abbreviations.Edwardian Home. A Life of One’s Own. Experiment in Leisure. The Road to Psychoanalysis.‘A Huge Catherine Wheel’.On Not Being Able to…… Influences, Family and Friends – 1950’s—late 1970’s. Servant of a Process.The Facts of Art.Beads of Her Own: Travels Inner and Outer. Forty-Four Years of Psychoanalysis: The Suppressed Madness of Sane Men. Bothered by…..The 1990’s. Notes.Bibliography. Index.

O autorze

Emma Letley is a writer and psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She trained with the Arbours Association and is currently in practice at King's College London and in private practice in Notting Hill Gate. She is Series Editor of the Marion Milner works (Routledge, 2010–2012).