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(1969). The International Psycho-Analytical Library, 76:1-426. London: The Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis.

The Hands of the Living God: An Account of a Psycho-analytic Treatment

Marion Milner

Foreword to "The Hands of the Living God: An Account of a Psycho-analytic Treatment"

D. W. Winnicott, F.R.C.P.

Schizophrenia is about something. But what is it about? Very good clinical descriptions exist, but how to get farther? No doubt the best way to learn more is to be involved with a schizoid or a schizophrenic person. We may find ourselves in such a position by mistake or by design, and so we learn a lot, usually much more than we can grip, so that we end up bewildered. We get to know a great deal through being involved, but being involved we find it difficult to stand aside, to become detached enough to think, to feel the full significance of each phrase; to integrate all by the use of available theory and the construction of new theory.

Marion Milner provides us with an opportunity to look at a schizoid person without the involvement that makes thinking so difficult. By some miracle of detachment she has been able to keep track of the myriad details of a long treatment and

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