Maggie Mills studied Jurisprudence at Oxford, trained at the Royal Free Hospital in London and then worked as a Consultant Clinical Psychologist in the NHS. She is now retired and works in private practice. She qualified as a psychoanalyst and is Professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of Syracuse. She helped to found a psychotherapy service in Brixton for women from ethnic minorities, and also worked for many years with Newpin. She publishes on maternal depression, domestic violence, parent-child relationships and psychotherapeutic change.
Psychoanalysis is concerned with the vicissitudes of life: loss, grief, mourning, guilt and also with reparation and creativity, with death and rebirth, as is the work of Shakespeare. These papers... (more)