Creative Analysis: Art, Creativity and Clinical Process explores the dynamics of creativity in psychoanalytic treatment. It argues that the creative process of the analytic interaction is characterised by specific forms of feeling, thinking and, most importantly, relating that result in the emergence of something new – therapeutic change. The artistic aspects of psychoanalysis and various features of creativity in analytic treatment are explored.
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- Presenting a new model of the psychology of creativity and art.
- Exploring the psychodynamics of art and the creativity of the brain.
- Discussing aesthetic aspects of the treatment relationship.
- Highlighting the creativity of both the analyst and analysand.
- Reformulating psychoanalytic therapy as a form of art.
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Change in analysis is driven not just by the analyst’s interventions but the patient’s own motivation and capacity for self-transformation. This change is depicted here as a depth psychological process which explores the sources of the patient’s resistance to self-actualisation and identifies hidden potential, unrealised capacities and strengths. The book will be of interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, graduates and students, including the educated public interested in art.
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