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

Author(s) : Marion Milner

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Contents
Winnicott, Foreword. Preface. Phillips, Introduction.
PART I: The Years Before She Began to Draw. Her History. The Beginning of the Analysis: Her First Two Dreams. Unable to Grow Spiritually or Mentally: Blocks in The Maturational Process. The Dream of Water Behind the House: Need for the Self-Created Environment. Daydream of a River and Logs: Her Devil as Seducer to Destruction? A Change in Technique: Attention to the Threshold Between the Articulate and the Inarticulate. Her Lost Background: The Undifferentiated Sea of Inner Body Awareness. She Begins to Turn up as a Person: First Recognition of Self-Projection Via her Cats. A New Experience of Breakdown: When her Foster Home Breaks Up.
PART II: The 1950 Drawings. She Makes Contact by Doodle Drawings: Faecal Symbols as Devils or Chrysalises. After the Easter Holiday in Hospital:The Bottom's Eye View of the World. After the Consultation: The Turd-Baby and Strangled Feelings. The Sleeping Goddess: Premonitions of Waking up to Face Disillusionment and Loss. Many Kinds of Nests: Beginning to Conceive of a Holding Environment. The Summer Holiday in N.I. Hospital: Ego Nuclei, Early Body Memories and Archaic Body Images. She Tries Physiotherapy: The Delusory Body Image and the Real Body Image.
PART III: The Years From 1951 to 1957 and The Background Theory. The External Situation: Learning to Cook and Attending a Psychotherapy Group as well as Analysis. The Post-E.C.T. Drawing and The Circle: A Symbol of Fusion of Mother and Child. Ways of Communicating Feelings: Confusion of Body-Openings and The Creative Surrender. Haloes, Traps and the Devil: Delusory Cocoons and Identification with the Exalted Ego-Ideal.
PART IV: The 1957 to 1958 Drawings and Her Re-entry Into The World. She Uses The Symbol of Water: Premonitions of Re-Birth. The Little Duck gets Ready to Come Out: But to Come out Means to be Eaten? Her First Landscapes and Drawings of the Inside of the Mouth: Beginning to Realize that her Attacks can do Harm. Her Use of the Diagonal: Experimenting with Ideas of Duality and An Interface Between Opposites. The Day her Head Stops Turning: Recognition of a Gap, A Sense of Loss, a 'Hole in the Heart'. The Proudman Dream and Return to the World: Accepting Limitations to Loving and Discovery of Communion.
PART V: What Followed. A Crystallization of Theory: Breathing and Primary Self-Enjoyment. Her Mother's Death and After: Finding a Mate and Towards Re-Finding her Feet. The Saliva in the Cup: The Place of Transformation.