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W r i t i n g s a n d a r t w o r k b y
M e g H a r r i
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Meg Harris Williams is a writer and artist with a
particular interest is the relation between psychoanalysis and aesthetic
experience, in poetry and visual art.
She was born in London in 1951 and read English at Cambridge and
Oxford universities, and studied art in Florence and the UK. As a daughter of Martha Harris she has had a lifelong
psychoanalytic education, working closely with her stepfather Donald Meltzer in the post-Kleinian
field (in which the ideas of Wilfred R. Bion are influential) and is now
editor of the Harris Meltzer Trust. Meg has taught and lectured in
England, Europe, Scandinavia, South America and the USA; many papers and
book-chapters have been translated into Spanish, Italian, French, German,
Greek and Portuguese. She is a visiting lecturer at the Tavistock Centre. She is married with
four children and now lives in Crondall near Farnham, Surrey where she runs
life-drawing groups inspired by the methods of Meriel Gold
(after Cecil Collins). She is a member of Borderlands Artists’ Consortium
and of the Women’s Work committee. Her work is in private collections in
this country and abroad and in the New
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NEW The Aesthetic Development:
the poetic spirit of psychoanalysis (Karnac 2010)
Bion’s
Dream: a reading of the autobiographies (Karnac 2010) TALKS ‘The
Aesthetic Development’ and
‘Bion’s Dream’ An
Audience with the Author,
London Centre for Psychotherapy, 6 February 2010 ‘Lifedrawing
and self-analysis’ Wessex
Psychotherapy Society, Southampton,
17 March 2010 ‘King
Lear’ Birkbeck
Counselling Association Forum,
London 19 May 2010 FORTHCOMING PAPERS (editor)
A Meltzer Reader The
Harris Meltzer Trust, March 2010 `The Evolution of Artistic Faith in Patrick White’s
Riders in the Chariot’ (Ariel, Calgary) |
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RECENT
BOOKS AND PAPERS `Psychoanalysis
as an art form’ British Journal of Psychotherapy 25.3 (August 2009)
`The
hieroglyphics of Catherine: Emily Bronte and the Musical Matrix’ in The Brontes in the World of the Arts ed. Sandra Hagan
and Juliette Wells (Ashgate, 2008) the postKleinian model of the mind and
its poetic origins (Karnac Books 2005) (editor)
Romana Negri: The
Story of Infant Development Observational work with Martha Harris (Harris
Meltzer Trust 2007) (editor) Martha
Harris: Your Teenager (Harris
Meltzer Trust 2007) |
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