Description
| Product ID: | 9780415550789 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | The Collected Works of Marion Milner |
| Title: | On Not Being Able to Paint |
| Authors: | Author: Marion Milner |
| Page Count: | 274 |
| Subjects: | Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Psychotherapy, Creative therapy / Expressive therapies, Psychotherapy, Creative therapy (eg art, music, drama) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Milner’s great study discusses the nature of creativity and those forces which prevent its expression. With a new introduction by Janet Sayers this book brings the text to the present generation of readers in the field of psychoanalysis Milner’s great study, first published in 1950, discusses the nature of creativity and those forces which prevent its expression. In focusing on her own beginner’s efforts to draw and paint, she analyses not the mysterious and elusive ability of the genius but – as the title suggests – the all too common and distressing situation of ‘not being able’ to create. With a new introduction by Janet Sayers, this edition of On Not Being Able to Paint brings the text to the present generation of readers in the fields of psychoanalysis, education and all those, specialist and general audiences alike, with an interest or involvement in the creative process and those impulses impeding it in many fields. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2010-09-23 |
