ABSTRACT
Milner's development of psychoanalysis can be traced back to the findings of her self-analysis, beginning in the 1920s, and reported by her in books published in the 1930s under the pen-name, Joanna Field. In these books she described ills she suffered from identifying with a narrowly focused male drive, as she understood it, geared, she said, to doing and getting things done. She contrasted this with wide attention to, and oneness with the world around her, which she equated with feminine receptivity.
