ABSTRACT
Graduating from a psychoanalytic institute is like being born from a psychoanalytic womb, an extended, intermittent process of birth. Curious to liken an institute to a womb when entering it might be a kind of birth, too. What a strange new world one enters, for some a sense of home. A new kind of atmosphere to live in, mind to mind, heart to heart, soul to soul, psyche to psyche, with all the quagmires, blocks, furies, longings, and beauty therapy gives birth to. Therapy wombs filled with therapy births and persistent conflict whether to be born or not, in what ways, with what price. Gestalt psychology, body therapies, depth and humanistic psychologies are among those that found ways of nourishing each other. The list grows. So many groups that have so much to give fight each other. Today, many forms of body work and psychoanalysis interweave. Marion Milner was one of the early spokespersons for body and art in psychoanalysis.
