Gavin Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 3832707 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gavin Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gavin |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | English Research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester M15 6LL E‐mail |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities
The first volume to interrogate the intersections between science fiction and the medical humanities Critically interrogates the technological optimism of the medical and biotechnological professions Brings science fiction into an interdisciplinary conversation across the disciplines comprising medical humanities Explores representations of medical progress from the classical and medieval worlds to the contemporary, and across a variety of media,…
The Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities
This book brings together a collection of exciting new work at the encounter of two interdisciplinary fields: science fiction studies and the medical humanities. The chapters tackle a wide range of issues posed by the presence of medicine, health, and disability in science fiction, and by the speculative imaginary that informs modern biomedical health care. The chapters are collected into five parts, covering: health and pathology; technologies; …
Other psychotherapies
This article introduces the special issue of Transcultural Psychiatry entitled 'Other Psychotherapies': Healing Interactions across Time, Geographies, and Cultures. This special issue is intended to highlight that, rather than being exclusively a modern phenomenon, variants of psychotherapeutic practice have existed for millennia in diverse sociocultural contexts. This article explores the historical development of Western psychotherapy and point…
Madness Decolonized
The US psychologist Gail Hornstein's monograph, Agnes's Jacket: A Psychologist's Search for the Meanings of Madness (2009), is an important intervention in the identity politics of the mad movement. Hornstein offers a resignified vision of mad identity that embroiders the central trope of an "anti-colonial" struggle to reclaim the experiential world "colonized" by psychiatry. A series of literal and figurative appeals makes recourse to the inner …
Science fiction and the medical humanities
Research on science fiction within the medical humanities should articulate interpretative frameworks that do justice to medical themes within the genre. This means challenging modes of reading that encourage unduly narrow accounts of science fiction. Admittedly, science studies has moved away from reading science fiction as a variety of scientific popularisation and instead understands science fiction as an intervention in the technoscientific i…
Winifred Rushforth and the Davidson Clinic for Medical Psychotherapy
The activities of both Winifred Rushforth (1885–1983), and the Edinburgh-based Davidson Clinic for Medical Psychotherapy (1941–73) which she directed, exemplify and elaborate the overlap in Scotland of religious discourses and practices with psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Even as post-war secularization began to affect Scottish culture and society, Rushforth and the Davidson Clinic attempted to renew the biographical discourses of Christianity usi…
R.D. Laing’s theological hinterland
Contrasting elements in R.D. Laing’s psychiatry can be traced to two kinds of Christian theology: mystical theology and corporate theology. On one hand, Laing’s mystical theology combined with psychoanalytic theory, to provide a New Age psychotherapeutic account of the recovery of authentic selfhood via metanoia. On the other, his incarnational, corporate theology promoted social inclusion of the mentally ill, particularly via therapeutic communi…
How Scottish was R. D. Laing
R. D. Laing was indebted, although not exclusively or uncritically, to his early Scottish intellectual context. He engaged, for instance, throughout his life with the ideas of the Scottish philosopher John Macmurray. Despite the relative lack of scholarship on twentieth-century Scottish thought, it is possible to trace Laing's participation in a tradition of the importation and translation of Continental ideas (exemplified by scholars such as the…
Animals, Empathy, and Care in Naomi Mitchison’s Memoirs of a Spacewoman
Naomi Mitchison’s Memoirs of a Spacewoman (1962) represents the adventures of Mary, a female explorer who uses her highly developed capacity for empathy to communicate with animals. Mary’s attentive sympathy plays a vital role in the ethical relations which she maintains with both Terran and extra-terrestrial animal life. Her animal encounters also foreground the embodiment of her own rationality, and particularly the potential for an ethic of ca…
Faith, Theology, and Psychoanalysis
Faith, Theology, and Psychoanalysis: The Life and Thought of Harry S. Guntrip by Trevor M. Dobbs Pickwick Publications , Eugene, OR , 2007 ; 190 pp; $22.00 Psychoanalysis and Religion in the 21st C
Scottish psychoanalysis
The ambition to rationally preserve a Christian religious inheritance distinctively informs Scottish psychoanalytic ideas. Scottish psychoanalysis presents the human personality as born into communion with others. The aim of therapy is to restore, preserve, and promote genuinely interpersonal relations. The Scottish psychoanalysis apparent in the work of W. R. D. Fairbairn, Ian Suttie, Hugh Crichton-Miller, and in the philosophy of John Macmurray…
The Legacy of Fairbairn and Sutherland
Reviewed by: The Legacy of Fairbairn and Sutherland: Psychotherapeutic Applications Gavin Miller The Legacy of Fairbairn and Sutherland: Psychotherapeutic Applications. Jill Savege Scharff and David E. Scharff, eds. New York: Routledge, 2005. xvi + 295 pp. $90.00 (hb), $34.95 (pb). Jill and David Scharff's edited collection, The Legacy of Fairbairn and Sutherland, reminds the wider intellectual world of Scotland's contribution to object relations…
Psychiatry as Hermeneutics
R. D. Laing's work on the origins of schizophrenia in family contexts has often been dismissed as unscientific because it failed to show any reliable correlation between disordered communication and schizoid breakdown. However, Laing's method is closer to that of sociological or historical investigation and is therefore largely independent of questions of natural-scientific etiology. His work must use two kinds of understanding: first, the actual…
A Wall of Ideas
The dominant psychoanalytic theories in the humanities promote a myth of origins in which the infant is originally asocial, and motivated only by selfish hedonism, or by a desire to return to a state of syncretic merger with its environment. Developmental psychology, however, has demonstrated that infants are social agents, rather than selfish narcissists. Psychoanalytic theory of culture must therefore recognise the masculine "taboo on tendernes…
R. D. Laing
Scottish psychoanalysis
The ambition to rationally preserve a Christian religious inheritance distinctively informs Scottish psychoanalytic ideas. Scottish psychoanalysis presents the human personality as born into communion with others. The aim of therapy is to restore, preserve, and promote genuinely interpersonal relations. The Scottish psychoanalysis apparent in the work of W. R. D. Fairbairn, Ian Suttie, Hugh Crichton-Miller, and in the philosophy of John Macmurray…
Science fiction and the medical humanities
Research on science fiction within the medical humanities should articulate interpretative frameworks that do justice to medical themes within the genre. This means challenging modes of reading that encourage unduly narrow accounts of science fiction. Admittedly, science studies has moved away from reading science fiction as a variety of scientific popularisation and instead understands science fiction as an intervention in the technoscientific i…
Psychiatry as Hermeneutics
R. D. Laing's work on the origins of schizophrenia in family contexts has often been dismissed as unscientific because it failed to show any reliable correlation between disordered communication and schizoid breakdown. However, Laing's method is closer to that of sociological or historical investigation and is therefore largely independent of questions of natural-scientific etiology. His work must use two kinds of understanding: first, the actual…
A Wall of Ideas
The dominant psychoanalytic theories in the humanities promote a myth of origins in which the infant is originally asocial, and motivated only by selfish hedonism, or by a desire to return to a state of syncretic merger with its environment. Developmental psychology, however, has demonstrated that infants are social agents, rather than selfish narcissists. Psychoanalytic theory of culture must therefore recognise the masculine "taboo on tendernes…
R. D. Laing
R. D. Laing
The Legacy of Fairbairn and Sutherland
Reviewed by: The Legacy of Fairbairn and Sutherland: Psychotherapeutic Applications Gavin Miller The Legacy of Fairbairn and Sutherland: Psychotherapeutic Applications. Jill Savege Scharff and David E. Scharff, eds. New York: Routledge, 2005. xvi + 295 pp. $90.00 (hb), $34.95 (pb). Jill and David Scharff's edited collection, The Legacy of Fairbairn and Sutherland, reminds the wider intellectual world of Scotland's contribution to object relations…
Psychiatry as Hermeneutics
R. D. Laing's work on the origins of schizophrenia in family contexts has often been dismissed as unscientific because it failed to show any reliable correlation between disordered communication and schizoid breakdown. However, Laing's method is closer to that of sociological or historical investigation and is therefore largely independent of questions of natural-scientific etiology. His work must use two kinds of understanding: first, the actual…
A Wall of Ideas
The dominant psychoanalytic theories in the humanities promote a myth of origins in which the infant is originally asocial, and motivated only by selfish hedonism, or by a desire to return to a state of syncretic merger with its environment. Developmental psychology, however, has demonstrated that infants are social agents, rather than selfish narcissists. Psychoanalytic theory of culture must therefore recognise the masculine "taboo on tendernes…
Animals, Empathy, and Care in Naomi Mitchison’s Memoirs of a Spacewoman
Naomi Mitchison’s Memoirs of a Spacewoman (1962) represents the adventures of Mary, a female explorer who uses her highly developed capacity for empathy to communicate with animals. Mary’s attentive sympathy plays a vital role in the ethical relations which she maintains with both Terran and extra-terrestrial animal life. Her animal encounters also foreground the embodiment of her own rationality, and particularly the potential for an ethic of ca…
Faith, Theology, and Psychoanalysis
Faith, Theology, and Psychoanalysis: The Life and Thought of Harry S. Guntrip by Trevor M. Dobbs Pickwick Publications , Eugene, OR , 2007 ; 190 pp; $22.00 Psychoanalysis and Religion in the 21st C
Scottish psychoanalysis
The ambition to rationally preserve a Christian religious inheritance distinctively informs Scottish psychoanalytic ideas. Scottish psychoanalysis presents the human personality as born into communion with others. The aim of therapy is to restore, preserve, and promote genuinely interpersonal relations. The Scottish psychoanalysis apparent in the work of W. R. D. Fairbairn, Ian Suttie, Hugh Crichton-Miller, and in the philosophy of John Macmurray…
How Scottish was R. D. Laing
R. D. Laing was indebted, although not exclusively or uncritically, to his early Scottish intellectual context. He engaged, for instance, throughout his life with the ideas of the Scottish philosopher John Macmurray. Despite the relative lack of scholarship on twentieth-century Scottish thought, it is possible to trace Laing's participation in a tradition of the importation and translation of Continental ideas (exemplified by scholars such as the…
R.D. Laing’s theological hinterland
Contrasting elements in R.D. Laing’s psychiatry can be traced to two kinds of Christian theology: mystical theology and corporate theology. On one hand, Laing’s mystical theology combined with psychoanalytic theory, to provide a New Age psychotherapeutic account of the recovery of authentic selfhood via metanoia. On the other, his incarnational, corporate theology promoted social inclusion of the mentally ill, particularly via therapeutic communi…
Winifred Rushforth and the Davidson Clinic for Medical Psychotherapy
The activities of both Winifred Rushforth (1885–1983), and the Edinburgh-based Davidson Clinic for Medical Psychotherapy (1941–73) which she directed, exemplify and elaborate the overlap in Scotland of religious discourses and practices with psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Even as post-war secularization began to affect Scottish culture and society, Rushforth and the Davidson Clinic attempted to renew the biographical discourses of Christianity usi…
Science fiction and the medical humanities
Research on science fiction within the medical humanities should articulate interpretative frameworks that do justice to medical themes within the genre. This means challenging modes of reading that encourage unduly narrow accounts of science fiction. Admittedly, science studies has moved away from reading science fiction as a variety of scientific popularisation and instead understands science fiction as an intervention in the technoscientific i…
Madness Decolonized
The US psychologist Gail Hornstein's monograph, Agnes's Jacket: A Psychologist's Search for the Meanings of Madness (2009), is an important intervention in the identity politics of the mad movement. Hornstein offers a resignified vision of mad identity that embroiders the central trope of an "anti-colonial" struggle to reclaim the experiential world "colonized" by psychiatry. A series of literal and figurative appeals makes recourse to the inner …
Other psychotherapies
This article introduces the special issue of Transcultural Psychiatry entitled 'Other Psychotherapies': Healing Interactions across Time, Geographies, and Cultures. This special issue is intended to highlight that, rather than being exclusively a modern phenomenon, variants of psychotherapeutic practice have existed for millennia in diverse sociocultural contexts. This article explores the historical development of Western psychotherapy and point…
The Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities
The first volume to interrogate the intersections between science fiction and the medical humanities Critically interrogates the technological optimism of the medical and biotechnological professions Brings science fiction into an interdisciplinary conversation across the disciplines comprising medical humanities Explores representations of medical progress from the classical and medieval worlds to the contemporary, and across a variety of media,…
The Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities
This book brings together a collection of exciting new work at the encounter of two interdisciplinary fields: science fiction studies and the medical humanities. The chapters tackle a wide range of issues posed by the presence of medicine, health, and disability in science fiction, and by the speculative imaginary that informs modern biomedical health care. The chapters are collected into five parts, covering: health and pathology; technologies; …
Psychology (10 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Psychoanalysis (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (5 works) · Literature (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Religious studies (4 works) · Christianity (3 works)