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Marion Milner - Bothered By Alligators - 9780415684569 - V9780415684569
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Bothered By Alligators

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Description for Bothered By Alligators Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 18 black & white illustrations, 4 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: JMAF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 199 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 342.

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, her notebooks and by interpreting her own previously discarded drawings ... Read more

Like many of Milner's earlier books there is a deeply personal quality to Bothered by Alligators, but it is a quality that transcends the personal and reveals insights and conclusions that will be both interesting and useful to clinicians; and fascinating to readers from a psychological, a literary, an artistic or an educational background, and, in particular, those with an interest in psychoanalysis and autobiography and in Milner's work.

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Product Details

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
296
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415684569
SKU
V9780415684569
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1

About Marion Milner
Marion Milner (1900-1998) was a distinguished British psychoanalyst, educationalist, autobiographer and artist.

Reviews for Bothered By Alligators
"Bothered by Alligators is a fascinating addition to her bibliography. It combines the two primary strains in her writing – the making of diaries and the analysis of images. And as the most autobiographical of her books, it might be regarded as a summation, the last words and thoughts of a writer who was continually thinking with that lively, enquiring ... Read more

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