The Marion Milner Tradition Lines Of Development: Evolution Of Theory And Practice Over The Decades | Mental Health

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. |The Marion Milner Tradition Lines of Development: Evolution of Theory and Practice over the Decades | Mental Health