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Mended by the Muse: Creative Transformations of Trauma (Paperback)
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Mended by the Muse: Creative Transformations of Trauma (Paperback)
Series: Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series
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Mended by the Muse: Creative Transformations of Trauma is an
in-depth exploration of the relationship between trauma and
creativity. It is about art in the service of healing, mourning,
and memorialization. This book addresses the questions of how
artistic expression facilitates the healing process; what the
therapeutic action of art is, and if there is a relationship
between mental instability and creativity. It also asks how
self-analysis through art-making can be integrated with
psychoanalytic work in order to enrich and facilitate emotional
growth. Drawing on four decades of clinical practice and a critical
reading of creativity literature, Sophia Richman presents a new
theory of the creative process whose core components are relational
conceptualizations of dissociation and witnessing. This is an
interdisciplinary book which draws inspiration from life histories,
clinical case material, neuroscience, and interviews with creators,
as well as from various art forms such as film, literature,
paintings, and music. Some areas of discussion include: art born of
genocide, confrontation with mortality in illness and aging, and
the clinical implications of memoirs written by psychoanalysts.
Visual images are interspersed throughout the text that illustrate
the reverberations of trauma and its creative transformation in the
work of featured artists. Mended by the Muse: Creative
Transformations of Trauma powerfully articulates how creative
action is one of the most effective ways of coping with trauma and
its aftershocks - it is in art, in all its forms, that sorrow is
given shape and meaning. Here, Sophia Richman shows how art helps
to master the chaos that follows in the wake of tragedy, how it
restores continuity, connection and the will for a more fully lived
life. This book is written for psychoanalysts as well as for other
mental health professionals who practice and teach in academic
settings. It will also be of interest to graduate and post-graduate
students and will be relevant for artists who seek a better
understanding of the creative process.
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