Main description:

1. Building on the recent resurgance of interest in Milner's work, this book provides the first book-length analysis of Milner's distinctive and important contribution to psychoanalytic theory and technique;
2. The book makes a unique contribution to object relations psychoanalysis by engaging with Milner's distinctive search for a therapeutic cure that takes place in the relationships between pen and paper, paint, and canvas;
3. The author engages with Milner's autobiographical work in a thoroughly contemporary way, including analysis of her theories in relation to 21st century creatives such as Lynda Barry and Alison Bechdel

Contents:

Introduction Part 1: The Milner Method 1. A Life of One's Own and the birth of a diary keeping method to rival psychoanalysis 2. On Not Being Able to Paint and drawing and painting for psychoanalysis 3. Bothered by Alligators and compensating for the failures of a "couch analysis" Part 2: The Milner Tradition 4. Tracing Milner's influence in the twentieth century 5. Milner in the comic frame: Lynda Barry and Alison Bechdel's autobiographical cures 6. Conclusion: In search of legibility?