There seemed to be endless obstacles... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.

She made considerable use of painting and doodling in her therapy and was also an enthusiastic painter herself; her observations on the benefits of painting were publiMarion Milnerd as On Not Being Able to Paint. Publications
A Life of One's Own 1934
An Experiment in Leisure 1937
The Human Problem in Schools 1938
On Not Being Able to Paint 1950
The Hands of the Living God 1969
"The Suppressed Madness of Sane Men: Forty-Four Years of Exploring Psychoanalysis" 1987


See also
Writing therapy
List of books on diaries and journals. She was the sister of Nobel physicist Patrick Blackett.

Outside psychotherapeutic circles Marion Milner is better known by her pseudonym Joanna Field as a pioneer of introspective journaling.