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Emma Letley is the Series Editor of the newly reprinted works of the distinguished psychologist, educationalist, author, and psychoanalyst of the British Society, Marion Milner . As well as the current publications under review here, in the spring of 2011, Routledge is bringing out Milner's A Life of One's Own, An Experiment in Leisure, Eternity's Sunrise, and the hitherto unpublished Bothered by Alligators, based on Milner's son John's childhood picture book. Letley's biography of Milner is planned for publication in 2012. Janet Sayers and Adam Phillips provide new introductions to the texts under review, as will Hugh Haughton, Maud Ellmann and Rachel Bowlby for the next wave of these new editions. Emma Letley is to be congratulated on this major undertaking.
Fortunately, both for psychoanalysis and for the arts, Marion Milner's writing straddles both worlds in an extraordinary counterpoint. It is difficult to place her in one single category of writing, for she belongs in many. But I think, and hope, that this new Milner series should place her fully in the general public's awareness, as well as highlight her within the intellectual tradition of psychoanalysis, where she articulates the perspective of the so-called Independent Group approaches to the subject. The excellent introductions by Sayers to On Not Being Able to Paint and Phillips to The Hands of the Living God situate Milner in her counterpoint roles within education, biography, psychoanalysis and culture generally. They speak to the intelligent reader today, as does Milner, without resorting to a language that departs from ordinary discourse. Milner has