Binding: Paperback
Description: This is what I really want. I want to discover ways to discriminate the important things in human life. I want to find ways of getting past this blind fumbling with existence. - Marion Milner from A Life of One's Own. How often do we really ask ourselves What will make me happy? What do I really want from life? In A Life of One's Own Marion Milner a renowned British psychoanalyst artist and autobiographer takes us on an extraordinary and compelling seven - year inward journey to discover what it is that makes her happy. On 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 she analyses moments of everyday life that can bring surprising joy such as walking listening to music and drawing. She also records in a disarmingly clear and insightful manner the struggle between the urge to order and control one's thoughts and standing back to let them wander where they may. A pioneering account of lived experience that also anticipates 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.
Title: A Life Of One's Own
Author(s): Milner Marion
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781032757551
Pages: 226 Pages
Publication Date: 5/1/2024
Series: Routledge Classics
Category: Psychotherapy