ABSTRACT
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, 150 of which are reproduced in the text, and their deep unconscious perception of the battle between sanity and madness. It is these drawings, linked with Milner’s sensitive and lucid record of the therapeutic encounter, that give the book its unique and compelling interest.
With a new introduction by Adam Phillips, The Hands of the Living God is essential reading for all those with an interest in the fields of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy and, more widely, to those involved in therapy and the arts.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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PART ONE The years before she began to draw
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PART TWO The 1950 drawings
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PART THREE The years from 1951 to 1957 and the background theory
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Part Four: The 1957 to 1958 drawings and her re-entry into the world
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Part Five: What followed