The Marion Milner Tradition

Lines of Development: Evolution of Theory and Practice over the Decades

Margaret Boyle Spelman, Joan Raphael-Leff, Margaret Boyle Spelman, Joan Raphael-Leff

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN: 9780429782275
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Mental Health in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

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

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Frontispiece
• Dedication Page
• Table of Contents
• List of figures
• Acknowledgements
• About the Editors and Contributors
• Series editor’s introduction
• Prologue
• Section I Marion Blackett Milner life and legacy
• Introduction To Section I
• Section II Clinical applications: Marion Milner in the psychoanalytic consulting room
• Introduction To Section II
• Section III Milner: art and creativity
• Introduction To Section III
• Section IV Milner’s books and other endeavours
• Introduction To Section IV
• Section V Recollections and reflections
• Introduction To Section V
• Epilogue: Marion Milner: ‘A mind becoming more aware of itself’
• Bibliography
• Index