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Ellen Smith

Ellen Smith is a psychoanalyst and social worker in Melbourne. She is also a writer and has written widely on Australian literature.

Works By Ellen Smith

In Defence of Creativity
What role does creativity have to play in medicine? Reviewing two recent books on the psychoanalyst Marion Milner, Ellen Smith shows what Milner’s experiments in creativity tell us about the flaws in contemporary mental health care.
19 Sept. 2025