The Marion Milner Method: Psychoanalysis, Autobiography, Creativity

ISBN-13: 9781032282954 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 232 str.

UK) Halton-Hernandez Emilia (University of Essex

Opis

This book traces the development of British psychoanalyst Marion Milner’s (1900-1998) autobiographical acts throughout her lifetime, proposing that Milner is a thinker to whom we can turn to explore the therapeutic potentialities of autobiographical and creative self-expression.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: The Milner Method  1. A Life of One's Own and the birth of a diary keeping method to rival psychoanalysis  2. On Not Being Able to Paint and drawing and painting for psychoanalysis  3. Bothered by Alligators and compensating for the failures of a "couch analysis"  Part 2: The Milner Tradition  4. Tracing Milner's influence in the twentieth century  5. Milner in the comic frame: Lynda Barry and Alison Bechdel's autobiographical cures  6. Conclusion: In search of legibility?

O autorze

Emilia Halton-Hernandez is Lecturer in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex. She has written on psychoanalysis, the infant mind, visual art, and literature. She lives in Brighton and London, UK.