Psychoanalytic Ideas and Shakespeare

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. Inge Wise is a member of the British Psycho-Analytical Society. She trained in marital and adult psychotherapy at the Tavistock Clinic in London. She was a consultant to a research project on adolescent identities in post-Communist countries, and works in private practice. She also lectures and teaches in the UK and abroad.

• Introduction -- Psychoanalysis and theatre -- Grief, loss, and creativity: whither the Phoenix? -- The Caledonian tragedy -- Some considerations of shame, guilt, and forgiveness derived principally from King Lear -- The other side of the wall. A psychoanalytic study of creativity in later life -- Prospero's book

'Patients always seem amazed that analysts can remember so much about them. Not just the essence of how if feels to be with them, but so many details of their personal archives. On first meeting a patient it feels, at least to me, as if they are presenting their own play or opening up a new novel to be shared.'- Maggie Mills from the Introduction