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Marion Milner (1900–1998), sometimes known as Marion Blackett-Milner, was a British writer and psychoanalyst. Outside psychotherapeutic circles, she is better known by her pseudonym, Joanna Field, as a pioneer of introspective journaling. Biography.
Oct 11, 2017 · In 1934, under the pen name Joanna Field, Milner released the results of her inquiry in A Life of One’s Own ( public library) — a small, enormously insightful book, beloved by W.H. Auden and titled in homage to Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, published three years after Milner began her existential experiment.
How often do we ask ourselves, ‘What will make me happy? What do I really want from life?’. In A Life of One’s Own Marion Milner explores these questions and embarks on a seven year personal journey to discover what it is that makes her happy.
May 7, 2018 · Marion Blackett was 26 when she began the research for the book, in 1926, and 34 when she published it, under the pseudonym Joanna Field. She had completed a degree in psychology and physiology, in 1923, and soon after started working for the National Institute of Industrial Psychology, headed by Charles Samuel Myers, collecting data from ...
Psychoanalyst and writer, who adopted the pseudonym Joanna Field. Marion Milner trained as a psychologist; her early books were based on her own diaries and the first was A Life of One's Own (1934). Milner started practising as a psychoanalyst in 1943.
English psychoanalyst, psychologist and author. Name variations: (pseudonym) Joanna Field. Born Marion Blackett, Feb 1, 1900, in London, England; died May 29, 1998; London University, BS in psychology; m. Dennis Milner (author and inventor, died 1954).
A Life of One's Own. Paperback – 22 Sept. 1986. How often do we ask ourselves, 'What will make me happy What do I really want from life ' Marion Milner, the author of this remarkable book, first published in 1934 under the pseudonym Joanna Field, set herself to grapple with this problem.
- Joanna Field, Marion Milner
