Main's papers relating to weekly workshops instituted and held by Michael Balint to conduct research into 'brief, or short-term, psychotherapy'. The workshops consisted of a core peer group of about eight psychoanalysts, of which Main was one, and a psychologist. Therapy sessions with selected patients were reported by workshop members and submitted for discussion by the group in order to extract principles for future psychotherapeutic sessions.
All files are closed, with the exception of P07-F-C-02, as the remainder refer to named patients and their case histories.
Tyepscript headed 'Psychoanalysis and Philosophy’. Annotated by Milner.
The documents comprise correspondence; notes; comments on diary; papers; review of 'On Not Being Able to Paint'.
Typescript paper entitled 'Involving the analyst'.
An introduction, by Klauber, to a discussion held at a symposium on 'The Nature of the Therapeutic Action' at the British Psychoanalytical Society, when Fordham presented his paper 'Analyst-Patient Interaction, with Special Reference to Non-Verbal Communication'. Also Klauber's notes for the opening of another discussion, at the SAP, on 'Counter-Transference and [?]' by Fordham.
Letter; reprints.
The documents comprise a note from Parsons; typescript ‘Psychic Reality, Negation and the Analytic Setting’; Milner’s notes.
The documents include a published paper entitled ''The Landscape Thinks Itself in Me' The Comments and Procedures of Cezanne’, ('International Review of Psychoanalysis', 1990). This was a Milner and Matte-Blanco 'Birthday Number'. They also include an article on Cezanne and Marion Milner; Milner's published response.