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Canvas of Change - Analysis Through the Prism of Creativity (Paperback)
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Canvas of Change - Analysis Through the Prism of Creativity (Paperback)
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This book presents a detailed account of two analytic treatments
viewed through the prism of creativity. The book is unique in that
it examines analysis from this particular viewpoint, as illustrated
by these case studies.The first part of the book contains a review
of the classical and contemporary literature on the source and
function of creativity. Creativity is then examined from the
perspective of several analytic models Freudian, Kleinian, and
post-Kleinian.The second and third parts of the book present case
illustrations that deal with the use of creative activity in
analysis. The creative use of biblical stories in the case of
David, or the use of paintings and poems in the case of Rachel,
portrayed the inner reality of these patients. David s violent and
incestuous biblical stories reflected his world of incestuous and
destructive wishes towards his primary objects (and towards the
therapist in the transference). Rachel s paintings and poems
conveyed her unconscious conflicts, depressive fantasies and
anxieties, stemming from her fusion with her mother who was a child
Holocaust survivor. Working through their relationships with their
primary objects and their self perception, as revealed by these
creative activities in analysis, facilitated the patients mourning.
The work of mourning incurred in this process helped both David and
Rachel achieve a better perception of reality and of their self,
unite the fragmented aspects of the self into a whole, and improve
their relationships with their primary objects.The book concludes
with the therapist s role in facilitating the creative process,
which in turn facilitates the therapeutic process. It contains a
summary of the role of creative activity in treatment, a discussion
of some of the ways in which the therapist facilitated the creative
process in order to arrive at the amazing discoveries which it
engenders, and a discussion of the way in which the patients
creativity was successfully incorporated in their treatment.The
therapist s awareness of the patients creativity and its important
role in solving the patients conflicting life and death wishes
enabled her to help them recognize their aggressive and destructive
wishes and work them through. Both patients emerged from a long
analysis better integrated."
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