Marion Milner
Marion Milner
Marion Milner, sometimes known as Marion Blackett-Milner, was a British author and psychoanalyst. Outside psychotherapeutic circles, she is better known by her pseudonym, Joanna Field, as a pioneer of introspective journaling...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPsychologist
passion blood leaving
by taking notice of those feelings and images that seemed to be in my blood and bones rather than in my head, I had found myself able to behave, not less reasonably, but more so. Apparently it was as much a false extreme to try and live by reason alone, leaving the passions out of count, as to ignore reason and put passion in its place as the guiding force of life.
knows ifs
Perhaps if one really knew when one was happy one would know the things that were necessary in one's life.
roots causes obstacles
There seemed to be endless obstacles - it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.