The Marion Milner Tradition Lines of Development: Evolution of Theory and Practice over the Decades

Section I: Marion Blackett Milner life and legacy

INTRODUCTION TO SECTION I:

1. 'Joy to be hidden': thoughts from a biographer

Emma Letley

2. Some essential concepts of Marion Blackett Milner: Framing, Concentration, Absentmindedness, Rêverie

Gabriele Cassullo & Alberto Stefana

3. 'The Pliable Medium'

Barbie Antonis & Elizabeth Wolf

4. Winnicott and Milner - recognising the legacy of collegial love

Margaret Boyle Spelman

5. The Use Creativity Can Make of Pain

Michael Eigen

6. Talking with Marion Milner about Donald W. Winnicott and about herself (1981)

James William Anderson

7. 'What a lovely woman: my youthful encounters with Marion Milner (1985-1998)

Brett Kahr

8. Interview with Marion Milner (1990)

Deborah Anna Luepnitz

9. 'Tea' with Marion Milner (1996)

Linda Hopkins

10. My friend, Marion Milner

Adam Phillips
(Conversations with Margaret Boyle Spelman, London 1st May 2019)

Section II: Clinical applications: Milner in the psychoanalytic consulting room

INTRODUCTION TO SECTION II

11. 'Access to darkly hidden powers'—the context to Marion Milner's psychoanalytic training and clinical work

Joan Raphael-Leff

12. 'My Analyst Marion Milner'

Andreas Giannakoulas
(Telephone conversation with Margaret Boyle Spelman July, 23rd 2009, Rome)

Preface to Chapters 13 and 14: Marion Milner behind the couch

Margaret Boyle Spelman

13. 'I was her last Training Case' - analysis with Marion Milner and supervision with Winnicott

Peter Bruggen
(Conversations with Margaret Boyle Spelman: 27th of May 2005; 8th July 2017)

14. 'Marion was uniquely placed to understand'... (analyses with Marion Milner and with Donald Winnicott)

Andrew Malleson
(Conversations with Margaret Boyle Spelman: 6th of June 2005; 3rd January, 2021)

15. Marion Milner: thinking together... (on her supervision with Milner 1977-1978)

Juliet Mitchell

16. 'A meaningful encounter' - my supervision with Marion Milner (1990-1993)

Leon Kleimberg

17. 'Holding and Visceral Attention': bodily concentration of an analyst under COVID-19 lockdown

Maia Kirchkheli

Section III: Milner: art and creativity

INTRODUCTION TO SECTION III

18. 'Milner and the origins of creativity': from symbolism to symbol formation and illusion

Lesley Caldwell

19. 'The Chosen Medium': Milner's art

Hugh Haughton

20. Introduction to Marion Milner's work on creativity and art

Alberto Stefana

21. Remembering Marion Milner (from 1981 to 1998)

Desy Safán-Gerard

22. 'Jugs, Mugs, and Goblets': Comments on Marion Milner's artistic insights

Jennifer Scott

23. 'Scrappy observations'

Aleana Egan

24. 'A Deeper-rooted Kind of Knowing'

Wayne Featherstone

25. 'What sort of Mrs Milner is she?' Thinking the experience mostly in words

Thanassis Hatzopoulos
For Internatonal Winnicott Association Hellenic Group

26. 'A Womb of One's Own': holding hands, mutual muddlement, and the so-slow finding of feet in Marion Milner's creative clinical cradling of 'Susan'

David Smith & Cheryl Bleakley

Section IV: Milner's books and other endeavours

INTRODUCTION TO SECTION IV

27. The Human Problem in Schools: A refined application of psychological ideals

Shane Graham

28. Marion Milner: a many-branched psychologist at work: (The human problem in schools)

Margaret Boyle Spelman

29. 'Diaries over a lifetime': the diary-work of Marion Milner: A Life of One's Own; Experiment in Leisure; Eternity's Sunrise; Bothered by Alligators

Clare Crellin
[Reporting a conversation between Clare Crellin, Veronica O'Doherty, Aleana Eagan, and Margaret Boyle Spelman]

30. 'What Sort of Therapist Are You?' Reflections on The Suppressed Madness of Sane Men

Carolyn Coburn, Wayne Featherstone, Anne Jeffs, Allan Shafer
(Melbourne, Australia Reading Group)

31. 'Letting oneself be breathed'—On Not Being Able to Paint

Joan Raphael-Leff
For Cape Town Reading Group (of IPA Psychoanalysts)

32. 'The insides of solid things' - On Not Being Able to Paint

Penny Busetto
For Cape Town Interdisciplinary Groups

33. Q&A with Marion Milner on The Hands of the Living God

James William Anderson

34. 'The Play of Opposites' - Milner's last book: Bothered by Alligators

Angela Joyce & Tessa Dalley

Section V: About Marion: Recollections and reflections

INTRODUCTION TO SECTION V

35. 'Granny Plasticine' - my grandmother Marion Blackett Milner

Giles Milner

36. 'Words made flesh...' On editing Marion Milner

David Tuckett

37. 'The Visitation'

Bice Benvenuto

38. 'Marion on the Swing'

Michael Brearley

39. 'Marion on the Drums'

Donald Campbell

40. 'Marion Milner, Shakespeare and fashion'

Jennifer Johns

41. 'Getting to know Marion Milner': An unexpected gift from the late Andreas Giannakoulas

Vincenzo Bonaminio

42. 'It Thought Me' - on interviewing Marion Milner

Anne Karpf

Epilogue: Marion Milner: 'A mind becoming more aware of itself'

Joan Raphael-Leff

Biography

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.

"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