A fascinating exploration of using creativity as the key to the healing process. From the earliest moments of the psychotherapeutic relationship, the creative alliance of patient and therapist motivates the process. In this new and enlightening book, experts offer valuable insights into using psychotherapy as a means of developing and stimulating a patient's creativity. They examine a variety of successful strategies for spurring on a patient's creative forces--which provides both respite and insight--thereby awakening excitement in the patient and evoking in him or her a new awareness.
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978-0-86656-831-9 (9780866568319)
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Contents Preface: Psychotherapy and Creativity: The Awakening of Archetypes
The Enlarged Repertoire: An Exchange
The Creative Patient
Psychotherapy as a Creative Process
Discovery in Psychotherapy: The Role of the Creative Patient
Creative Patient/Patient Therapist
Some Difficulties in Sustaining a Therapeutic Presence to the Creative Patient
To Cause to Come Into Existence: The Creative Patient
On Keeping Out of the Briar Patch: A Family Ecological Systems Approach to Treating the Behavior Problems of Creative Adolescents
Psychotherapy With Creative People: Dismantling the Roadblocks
Creative Patience
The Use of Poetry in Psychotherapy
Poetry and Prose--Experiencing the Creative Patient
Creativity and Loneliness
Hemispheric Specialization and Creativity in Psychotherapy
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera--The Transformation of Catastrophe to Creativity
