A Life of One's Own by Marion Milner Hardcover Book

Description: A Life of One's Own by Marion Milner A pioneering work that anticipated the contemporary phenomenon of mindfulness, A Life of Ones Own is a great adventure in thinking and living whose insights remain as fresh today as they were on the books first publication in the 1930s. This Routledge Classics edition includes a revised Introduction by Rachel Bowlby. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher 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 Ones Own.How often do we really ask ourselves, What will make me happy? What do I really want from life? In A Life of Ones 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 ones 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 Ones Own is a great adventure in thinking and living whose insights remain as fresh today as they were on the books first publication in the 1930s.This Routledge Classics edition includes a revised Introduction by Rachel Bowlby. Author Biography Marion Milner (1900-1998) was a distinguished British psychoanalyst, educationalist, autobiographer and artist. Table 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 Details ISBN1032757590 Author Marion Milner Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Series Routledge Classics Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781032757599 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2024-05-01 Imprint Routledge Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Alternative 9781032757551 UK Release Date 2024-05-01 DEWEY 158.1 Pages 226 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education ISBN-10 1032757590 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:160908476;

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