MILNER MARION

ΟΤΑΝ ΔΕΝ ΜΠΟΡΕΙΣ ΝΑ ΖΩΓΡΑΦΙΣΕΙΣ
Τι κάνει έναν άνθρωπο να είναι ή να μην είναι δημιουργικός; Η γνωστή ψυχοθεραπεύτρια Marion Milner προσεγγίζει το πολυσυζητημένο και πολύπλευρο θέμα της δημιουργικότητας και πραγματεύεται τα εμπόδια που συναντά ο καθημερινός άνθρωπος -ο μη καλλιτέχνης- όταν προσπαθεί να ζωγραφίσει. Με την ψυχαναλυτική της παιδεία, κάνει η ίδια "βουτιά" στα εμπόδια που δεν επιτρέπουν σε κάποιον να είναι πραγματικά δημιουργικός. Γι' αυτόν τον σκοπό χρησιμοποιεί τη μέθοδο της δημιουργίας αυθόρμητων "ελεύθερων" σχεδίων, μέσα από την οποία πολλά "θαύματα" μπορο...
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ΤΑ ΧΕΡΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΖΩΝΤΟΣ ΘΕΟΥ
"Αυτό το βιβλίο αφορά μια ασθενή, η οποία ήρθε στην πρώτη της συνεδρία λέγοντας τρία πράγματα: ότι είχε χάσει την ψυχή της· ότι δεν υπήρχε ο κόσμος γύρω της· και ότι όλα αυτά ξεκίνησαν αφού υποβλήθηκε σε ηλεκτροσπασμοθεραπεία σε νοσοκομείο, τρεις εβδομάδες προτού έρθει σ' εμένα" (Marion Milner). Τα Χέρια του Ζώντος Θεού είναι μια αυτοβιογραφία αλλά και μια ψυχαναλυτική πραγματεία. Παρουσιάζει την περίπτωση της Susan, μιας ασθενούς η οποία κατά τη διάρκεια της εικοσαετούς θεραπείας της ανακαλύπτει αυθόρμητα την ικανότητά της να κάνει εντυπ...
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(P/B) THE SUPPRESSED MADNESS OF SANE MEN
Marion Milner introduces this edited collection of her papers from 1942 to 1977 with a fascinating biographical account of her development in psychoanalysis. The collection includes her classic papers on symbolism....
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(P/B) AN EXPERIMENT IN LEISURE
What is it that stops people from knowing what they want? How often do we wonder where we are going and what our world is all about? Written in 1936 as a companion piece to A Life of One's Own, An Experiment in Leisure further charts Marion Milner's illuminating and rewarding investigation into how we lead our lives. Instead of drawing on her daily diary, she turns to memory images - images not only from her own life but also from books, mythology, travel and religion that seem to point to a suspension of ordinary, everyday awareness. From...
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(H/B) THE HUMAN PROBLEM IN SCHOOLS
Published in 1938, this book documents a psychological study carried out on behalf of the Girls' Public Day School Trust. Comprising 25 schools, the trust set the standard for girls' education for the first decade of the twentieth century and the pioneering study was set to serve the cause of national education. Marion Milner documents the study and her findings across four sections with topics covered including: intelligence testing, classroom observations, interpretation of material, varying effects of the environment and interviewing te...
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(P/B) BOTHERED BY ALLIGATORS
Milner's final text, Bothered by Alligators, came about when, in her nineties, she unexpectedly came across a diary she had kept during the early years of her son's life, recording his conversations and play between the ages of two and nine. With it was a storybook written and illustrated by him when he was about seven years old. Whilst working on the material, Milner gradually realised that both diary and storybook were provoking questions she realised had scarcely been asked, let alone answered in her own analysis. Through her memories,...
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(P/B) THE HANDS OF THE LIVING GOD
At once autobiographical and psychoanalytic, The Hands of the Living God, first published in 1969, provides a detailed case study of Susan who, during a 20-year long treatment, spontaneously discovers the capacity to do doodle drawings. An important focus of the book is the drawings themselves, 150 of which are reproduced in the text, and their deep unconscious perception of the battle between sanity and madness. It is these drawings, linked with Milner's sensitive and lucid record of the therapeutic encounter, that give the book its uniqu...
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(P/B) ETERNITY'S SUNRISE
Following on from A Life of One's Own and An Experiment in Leisure, Eternity's Sunrise explores Marion Milner's way of keeping a diary. Recording small private moments, she builds up a store of 'bead memories.' A carved duck, a sprig of asphodel, moments captured in her travels in Greece, Kashmir and Israel, circus clowns, a painting - each makes up a 'bead' that has a warmth or glow which comes in response to asking the simple question: What is the most important thing that happened yesterday? From these beads - sacred, horrific, profane...
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(P/B) A LIFE OF ONE'S OWN
How often do we ask ourselves, 'What will make me happy? What do I really want from life?' In A Life of One's Own Marion Milner explores these questions and embarks on a seven year personal journey to discover what it is that makes her happy. In its first publication, W.H. Auden found the book 'as exciting as a detective story' and, as Milner searches out clues, the reader quickly becomes involved in the chase. Using her own personal diaries, kept over many years, she analyses moments of everyday life and discovers ways of being, of lookin...
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(P/B) ON NOT BEING ABLE TO PAINT
Milner's great study, first published in 1950, discusses the nature of creativity and those forces which prevent its expression. In focusing on her own beginner's efforts to draw and paint, she analyses not the mysterious and elusive ability of the genius but - as the title suggests - the all too common and distressing situation of 'not being able' to create. With a new introduction by Janet Sayers, this edition of On Not Being Able to Paint brings the text to the present generation of readers in the fields of psychoanalysis, education and...
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ΟΤΑΝ ΔΕΝ ΜΠΟΡΕΙΣ ΝΑ ΖΩΓΡΑΦΙΣΕΙΣ
Τι κάνει έναν άνθρωπο να είναι ή να μην είναι δημιουργικός; Η Marion Milner, γνωστή ψυχοθεραπεύτρια και επίτιμο μέλος του Βρετανικού Συλλόγου Εικαστικών Θεραπευτών (BAAT), προσεγγίζει το πολυσυζητημένο και πολύπλευρο θέμα της δημιουργικότητας και πραγματεύεται τα εμπόδια που συναντά ο καθημερινός άνθρωπος -ο μη καλλιτέχνης- όταν προσπαθεί να ζωγραφίσει. Με την ψυχαναλυτική της παιδεία, κάνει η ίδια «βουτιά» στα εμπόδια που δεν επιτρέπουν σε κάποιον να είναι πραγματικά δημιουργικός, ανασύροντας μέσα από τη μέθοδο της δημιουργίας αυθόρμητων ...
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