ABSTRACT
Chapter 3 turns to the autobiographical works of Milner’s later years, with the main focus on her final book, Bothered by Alligators (2013) and its description of the failures of what she calls her “couch analysis,” primarily relating to her experience as Winnicott’s patient. This chapter traces the deliberate drive at the end of Milner’s life to compensate for past failed experiences as a psychoanalytic patient with her own creative and autobiographical methods for self-cure.
