In this series, Emma Letley has worked with the Marion Milner estate to re-contextualise six classic volumes by arranging for experts to provide new scholarly introductions to each book. These volumes will be useful and relevant to seasoned analysts as well as those new to Milner's work, making them attractive to a whole new generation of readers from both inside and outside of the psychotherapy profession.
By Marion Milner
July 27, 2011
In this series, Emma Letley has worked with the Marion Milner estate to re-contextualise six classic volumes by arranging for experts to provide new scholarly introductions to each book. This six volume pack comprises: The Hands of the Living God On Not being Able to Paint Eternity's ...
By Marion Milner
April 27, 2011
Following on from A Life of One’s Own and An Experiment in Leisure, Eternity’s Sunrise explores Marion Milner’s way of keeping a diary. Recording small private moments, she builds up a store of ‘bead memories.’ A carved duck, a sprig of asphodel, moments captured in her travels in Greece, Kashmir ...
By Marion Milner
April 09, 2012
Milner's final text, Bothered by Alligators, came about when, in her nineties, she unexpectedly came across a diary she had kept during the early years of her son's life, recording his conversations and play between the ages of two and nine. With it was a storybook written and illustrated by him ...
By Marion Milner
November 22, 2010
Milner’s great study, first published in 1950, discusses the nature of creativity and those forces which prevent its expression. In focusing on her own beginner’s efforts to draw and paint, she analyses not the mysterious and elusive ability of the genius but – as the title suggests – the all too ...
By Marion Milner
November 22, 2010
At once autobiographical and psychoanalytic, The Hands of the Living God, first published in 1969, provides a detailed case study of Susan who, during a 20-year long treatment, spontaneously discovers the capacity to do doodle drawings. An important focus of the book is the drawings themselves, ...