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.

About the Author

Margaret Boyle Spelman, PhD, is a chartered clinical and counselling psychologist, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and organisational psychologist who has been working for more than four decades with the Irish Health Service Executive and in private practice. She is (ex officio) member of The Psychological Society of Ireland, The Irish Council of Psychotherapy, and member of the European Association for Psychotherapy. Margaret has two monographs on the subject of DW Winnicott and co-edited the Winnicott volume in this series.

Joan Raphael-Leff, PhD, is a psychoanalyst (Fellow, British Psychoanalytical Society and longstanding Member of the Group of Independent Psychoanalysts). Previously, she was Professor of Psychoanalysis at UCL and the University of Essex. In 1998, she founded and served as the first International Chair of COWAP, IPA's Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis. She is the author and editor of fourteen books and 150 single author publications. Now, in her retirement, she heads the UCL/Anna Freud Centre Academic Faculty for Psychoanalytic Research.

Reviews

"Marion Milner and her work have been written about previously in a piecemeal sort of way. Here she is presented in her totality. Accounts of her clinical and theoretical ideas highlight their originality and continuing importance for psychoanalysis. Her work as an artist is also considered in its own right. Descriptions of the impact of Milner's writings on those who have studied them give clues to what readers of this book may find there for themselves. Besides all this, personal reminiscences of Milner bring her vividly and delightfully to life. We must be grateful to Margaret Boyle Spelman and Joan Raphael-Leff for a book that is both informative and inspiring." - Michael Parsons, Distinguished Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and member of the French Psychoanalytic Association

"Marion Milner and her work have been written about previously in a piecemeal sort of way. Here she is presented in her totality. Accounts of her clinical and theoretical ideas highlight their originality and continuing importance for psychoanalysis. Her work as an artist is also considered in its own right. Descriptions of the impact of Milner's writings on those who have studied them give clues to what readers of this book may find there for themselves. Besides all this, personal reminiscences of Milner bring her vividly and delightfully to life. We must be grateful to Margaret Boyle Spelman and Joan Raphael-Leff for a book that is both informative and inspiring." - Michael Parsons, Distinguished Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and member of the French Psychoanalytic Association

Book Information
ISBN 9781138359703
Author Margaret Boyle Spelman
Format Hardback
Page Count 282
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 521g