Marion Milner : the life / Emma Letley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Letley, Emma.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Milner, Marion, 1900-1998.

Milner, Marion.

Psychoanalysts--Great Britain--Biography.

Psychoanalysts.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 220 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2014.

Summary:

Artist, poet, educationalist and autobiographer, Marion Milner is considered one of the most original of psychoanalytic thinkers, whose life (1900-1998) spans a century of radical change. Marion Milner: The Life, is the first biography of this extraordinary woman. It 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 twenty-first century debates and discourses. In this book Emma Letley draws on primary sources, including the newly opened Marion Milner Collection at the archives of the British Psychoanalytical Society in London, as well as interviews and the re-contextualised series of Milner texts. She traces the process of Milner's writing of her books, her discovery of psychoanalysis, her training and her place in that world from the 1940s onwards. The book also includes discussion of Milner's connection with D.W. Winnicott and her emergence as a most individual member of the Independent Group. Marion Milner: The Life shows how Milner's Personal Notebooks offer fascinating insights into her relationships, both personal and professional, and into many of her important ideas on creativity, the body-mind relationship, her revolutionary ideas on education and her particular personality as clinician working with both children and adults. Further, Letley explores Milner's literary character from her very early diaries and narratives to her last book written in her nineties, published in 2012. Marion Milner: The Life places Marion Milner firmly in her Edwardian family setting and contains new material from primary sources, including a new view of her collegial connections. It provides a wealth of material on her life and works that will be invaluable to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, art psychotherapists, students, those involved with life writing and autobiography, and the general reader. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Edwardian home: early life 1900-1927 1

2 A Life of One's Own 18

3 An Experiment in Leisure 31

4 The road to psychoanalysis 40

5 'A huge Catherine wheel': Donald Winnicott 51

6 On not being able to ... 63

7 Influences, family and friends: 1950s-late 1970s 89

8 Servant of a process 104

9 'The facts of art': Milner and art psychotherapy 127

10 Beads of her own: travels inner and outer 132

11 Forty-four years of psychoanalysis: The Suppressed Madness of Sane Men 151

12 Bothered by ... the 1990s 167.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-212) and index.

ISBN:

9780415567374

0415567378

9780415567381

0415567386

OCLC:

858610192

Publisher Number:

40022616979