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 read English at Cambridge and Oxford universities, and studied art in Florence and the UK. 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 and a visiting lecturer at the Tavistock Centre, and for AGIP and the BAP. She is currently chair of Borderlands Artists Consortium and a member of the Women's Work committee. Her artwork is in private collections in this country and abroad and in the New Hall Women's Art Collection.

New and forthcoming

'Louise Bourgeois and the witches'
Talk for the Steilneset Memorial Opening Conference, Vardo, 10-11 October 2011

'The experience of the aesthetic object: a day of art and analysis' click here
organized for the BAP, Hyde Parish Hall, Winchester, Saturday 21 May 2011 (contact Meg if you would like to come to the next day of Lifedrawing for Psychotherapists)

'HerStory' - Women's Work 15th annual exhibition
8 June - 8 July 2011, The Link Gallery, Winchester click here

'On psychoanalytic autobiography'
Talk at Psychoanalytic Association of Biella, 25 June 2011

'The true voice of feeling: Lear's pilgrimage'
Psychodynamic Practice, vol 17 (1), May 2011 click here

'Playing with fire: the mythological consciousness'
in Classical Myth and Psychoanalysis, edited by Ellen O'Gorman and Vanda Zajko,
Oxford University Press

'The child, the container and the claustrum'
in Louise Bourgeois: Return of the Repressed, edited by Philip Larratt-Smith,
Violette Editions

'On austere criticism' click here