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Meg Harris Williams

is a writer and artist with a particular interest in the relation between psychoanalysis and aesthetic experience, in poetry and in visual art. She was educated at South Hampstead High School and Cambridge and Oxford universities (reading English), and at the Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence. Meg has taught and lectured in England, Europe, Scandinavia, South America, and the USA. Many papers and book chapters have been translated into Italian, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, and Japanese. She is editor of the Harris Meltzer Trust, a visiting lecturer for AGIP and at the Tavistock Clinic, and an Honorary Member of the Psychoanalytic Center of California. She is a member of Borderlands Artists Consortium and has exhibited frequently at the Society of Women Artists' Annual Exhibition; her artwork is in private collections in this country and abroad and in the New Hall Women's Art Collection.

New and forthcoming

Art of Personality

The Art of Personality in Literature and Psychoanalysis Talks and essays on classical drama, Kafka, Emily Bronte, Ibsen, Dostoevsky, Patrick White and others click here

Dream Sequences

Dream Sequences in Shakespeare: A Psychoanalytic Perspective

Not just in a play listen or read

Meltzer Intro

Donald Meltzer: A Contemporary Introduction

 

 

A Keatsian Anatomy of Melancholy: aesthetic conflict and the management of depression click here

Reconstructing the internal parents in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse Psychodynamic Practice, 29:4, 328-342 click here

Aesthetic conflict and the psychoanalytic method Puerto Alegre, 19 August 2023

 

Re-membering

Re-membering the Infantile

discussed by Alison Vaspe, Vera Montagna, Vivienne Pasieka - read or listen

The Becoming Room and A Memoir of the Future now both on YouTube

Joie Macaulay my English teacher click here

 

Prints etchings paintings book - The Aesthetic Development book - Bion's Dream book - The vale of soulmaking
 

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