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The Hands of the Living God: An Account of a Psycho-analytic Treatment
Authors
Milner, M.
Published by
London: The Hogarth Press and The Institute of Psychoan
ISBN-13
978-0823623204
ISBN-10
823623203
Years
1969
Contents
Front Matter
p. i
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Part One The Years before She began to Draw
Chapter 1. Her History
p. 3
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Chapter 2. The Beginning of the Analysis: Her First Two Dreams
p. 15
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Chapter 3. Unable to Grow Spiritually or Mentally: Blocks in the Maturational Process
p. 24
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Chapter 4. The Dream of Water Behind the House: Need for a Self-Created Environment
p. 27
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Chapter 5. Daydream of a River and Logs: Her Devil as Seducer to Destruction?
p. 32
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Chapter 6. A Change in Technique: Attention to the Threshold between the Articulate and the Inarticulate
p. 38
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Chapter 7. Her Lost Background: The Undifferentiated Sea of Inner Body Awareness
p. 44
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Chapter 8. She Begins to Turn up as a Person: First Recognition of Self-Projection via her Cats
p. 54
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Chapter 9. A New Experience of Breakdown: When her Foster—Home Breaks Up
p. 58
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Part Two The 1950 Drawings
Chapter 10. She Makes Contact by Doodle Drawings: Faecal Symbols as Devils or Chrysalises
p. 63
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Chapter 11. After the Easter Holiday in Hospital: The Bottom's Eye View of the World
p. 83
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Chapter 12. After the Consultation: The Turd-Baby and Strangled Feelings
p. 113
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Chapter 13. The Sleeping Goddess: Premonitions of Waking up to Face Disillusionment and Loss
p. 130
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Chapter 14. Many Kinds of Nests: Beginning to Conceive of a Holding Environment
p. 151
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Chapter 15. The Summer Holiday in N.I. Hospital: Ego Nuclei, Early Body Memories and Archaic Body Images
p. 177
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Chapter 16. She Tries Physiotherapy: The Delusory Body Image and the Real Body Image
p. 200
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Part Three The Years from 1951 to 1957 and the Background Theory
Chapter 17. The External Situation: Learning to Cook and Attending a Psychotherapy Group as Well as Analysis
p. 235
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Chapter 18. The Post-E.C.T. Drawing and the Circle: A Symbol of Fusion of Mother and Child
p. 239
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Chapter 19. Ways of Communicating Feelings: Confusion of Body-Openings and the Creative Surrender
p. 257
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Chapter 20. Haloes, Traps and the Devil: Delusory Cocoons and Identification with the Exalted Ego-Ideal
p. 265
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Part Four The 1957 to 1958 Drawings and her Re-Entry into the World
Chapter 21. She Uses the Symbol of Water: Premonitions of Re-Birth
p. 277
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Chapter 22. The Little Duck Gets Ready to Come Out: But to Come Out Means to be Eaten?
p. 288
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Chapter 23. Her First Landscapes and Drawings of the Inside of the Mouth: Beginning to Realize that her Attacks can do Harm
p. 304
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Chapter 24. Her Use of the Diagonal: Experimenting with Ideas of a Duality and an Interface between Opposites
p. 323
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Chapter 25. The Day her Head Stops Turning: Recognition of a Gap, a Sense of Loss, a ‘Hole in the Heart’
p. 357
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Chapter 26. The Proudman Dream and Return to the World: Accepting Limitations to Loving and Discovery of Communion
p. 369
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Part V What Followed
Chapter 27. A Crystallization of Theory: Breathing and Primary Self-Enjoyment
p. 379
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Chapter 28. Her Mother's Death and After: Finding a Mate and Towards Re-Finding her Feet
p. 386
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Chapter 29. The Saliva in the Cup: The Place of Transformation
p. 395
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Glossary
p. 413
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References
p. 421
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