ABSTRACT
The Marion Milner Tradition provides a comprehensive overview of Milner’s eight-volume oeuvre for the first time, and celebrates her pioneering achievements both in psychoanalytic world and in creative and scientific disciplines such as clinical and organisational psychology, philosophy, mindfulness and spirituality, management theory, art therapy, as well as art appreciation/criticism.
This volume considers Marion Blackett Milner through the prism of her innovative engagement with people, art, and human experience, as well as her extraordinary contribution as an original thinker and researcher within the Independent Group of the British Psychoanalytical Society. The co-editors’ exploratory approach to her legacy is as open as the spirit of Milnerean ‘discovery research’ in defining its distinctive features. An assembly of fifty contributors were invited to interrogate the evolution of what is becoming known as the Milner Tradition, demarcating her influence on theory and clinical practice over the many decades of her life and since her death. They draw upon their professional interviews or friendship with Marion Blackett Milner, or intimate experience of her as an analyst, supervisor, or relative. Similarly, participants in global reading groups in Australia, England, Greece, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and South Africa recount personal responses to their own exercise in action research.
The plethora of riches in this book will be of interest to both new and veteran readers of Milner’s opus, as well as students and practitioners from a variety of therapeutic and other disciplines.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Section I|68 pages
Marion Blackett Milner life and legacy
chapter Chapter 2|7 pages
Some essential concepts of Marion Blackett Milner
chapter Chapter 6|5 pages
Talking with Marion Milner about Donald W. Winnicott and about herself (1981)
chapter Chapter 7|17 pages
“What a lovely woman”
part Section II|42 pages
Clinical applications
chapter |1 pages
Introduction to Section II
chapter Chapter 13|3 pages
‘I was her last Training Case’ – analysis with Marion Milner and supervision with Winnicott
chapter Chapter 14|7 pages
‘Marion was uniquely placed to understand’… (analyses with Marion Milner and with Donald Winnicott)
chapter Chapter 15|3 pages
Marion Milner
chapter Chapter 17|11 pages
‘Holding and Visceral Attention’
part Section III|70 pages
Milner
chapter Chapter 18|5 pages
‘Milner and the origins of creativity’
chapter Chapter 26|12 pages
‘A Womb of One's Own’
part Section IV|50 pages
Milner's books and other endeavours
chapter Chapter 27|3 pages
The Human Problem in Schools
chapter Chapter 28|15 pages
Marion Milner
chapter Chapter 29|10 pages
‘Diaries over a lifetime’
chapter Chapter 30|6 pages
‘What Sort of Therapist Are You?’ Reflections on The Suppressed Madness of Sane Men
part Section V|26 pages
Recollections and reflections