Life of One''s Own

A pioneering work that anticipated the contemporary phenomenon of mindfulness, A Life of One's Own is a great adventure in thinking and living whose insights remain as fresh today as they were on the book's first publication in the 1930s. This Routledge Classics edition includes a revised Introduction by Rachel Bowlby.

List of contents

Introduction to the Routledge Classics Edition Rachel Bowlby Acknowledgements Prefatory Note Preface 1. First Questions 2. Keeping a Diary 3. Exploring the Hinterland 4. The Coming and Going of Delight 5. Searching for a Purpose 6. Searching for a Rule 7. Two Ways of Looking 8. Discovering that Thought can be Blind 9. Watching the Antics of Blind Thinking 10. The Escape from Blind Thinking 11. Fear of a Dragon 12. More Outcasts of Thought 13. Relaxing 14. Cart-horse or Pegasus? 15. Discovery of the 'Other' 16. Retrospect. Epilogue Afterword Index

About the author

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

Summary

A pioneering work that anticipated the contemporary phenomenon of mindfulness, A Life of One’s Own is a great adventure in thinking and living whose insights remain as fresh today as they were on the book’s first publication in the 1930s. This Routledge Classics edition includes a revised Introduction by Rachel Bowlby.

Product details

• Authors: Marion Milner, Milner Marion
• Assisted by: Rachel Bowlby (Introduction)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2024
• EAN: 9781032757599
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3275759-9
• No. of pages: 226
• Series: Routledge Classics
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, Psychotherapy, Feminism & feminist theory, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Feminism and feminist theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis