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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.
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.
"A Wolf in the Attic: Even though she was only two, the little girl
knew she must never go into the attic. Strange noises came from
there. Mama said there was a wolf upstairs, a hungry, dangerous
wolf . . . but the truth was far more dangerous than that. Much too
dangerous to tell a Jewish child marked for death. ""One cannot
mourn what one doesn't acknowledge, and one cannot heal if one does
not mourn . . . "A Wolf in the Attic is a powerful memoir written
by a psychoanalyst who was a hidden child in Poland during World
War II. Her story, in addition to its immediate impact, illustrates
her struggle to come to terms with the powerful yet sometimes
subtle impact of childhood trauma.In the author's words: "As a very
young child I experienced the Holocaust in a way that made it
almost impossible to integrate and make sense of the experience.
For me, there was no life before the war, no secure early childhood
to hold in mind, no context in which to place what was happening to
me and around me. The Holocaust was in the air that I breathed
daily for the first four years of my life. I took it in deeply
without awareness or critical judgment. I ingested it with the milk
I drank from my mother's breast. It had the taste of fear and
despair."Born during the Holocaust in what was once a part of
Poland, Sophia Richman spent her early years in hiding in a small
village near Lwow, the city where she was born. Hidden in plain
sight, both she and her mother passed as Christian Poles. Later,
her father, who escaped from a concentration camp, found them and
hid in their attic until the liberation.The story of the miraculous
survival of this Jewish family is only the beginning of their long
journey out of the Holocaust. The war years are followed by
migration and displacement as the refugees search for a new
homeland. They move from Ukraine to Poland to France and eventually
settle in America. A Wolf in the Attic traces the effects of the
author's experiences on her role as an American teen, a wife, a
mother, and eventually, a psychoanalyst. A Wolf in the Attic
explores the impact of early childhood trauma on the author's:
education career choices attitudes toward therapy, both as patient
and therapist social interactions love/family relationships
parenting style and decisions regarding her daughter religious
orientationRepeatedly told by her parents that she was too young to
remember the war years, Sophia spent much of her life trying to
"remember to forget" what she did indeed remember. A Wolf in the
Attic follows her life as she gradually becomes able to reclaim her
past, to understand its impact on her life and the choices she has
made, and finally, to heal a part of herself that she had been so
long taught to deny.
"A Wolf in the Attic: Even though she was only two, the little girl
knew she must never go into the attic. Strange noises came from
there. Mama said there was a wolf upstairs, a hungry, dangerous
wolf . . . but the truth was far more dangerous than that. Much too
dangerous to tell a Jewish child marked for death. ""One cannot
mourn what one doesn't acknowledge, and one cannot heal if one does
not mourn . . . "A Wolf in the Attic is a powerful memoir written
by a psychoanalyst who was a hidden child in Poland during World
War II. Her story, in addition to its immediate impact, illustrates
her struggle to come to terms with the powerful yet sometimes
subtle impact of childhood trauma.In the author's words: "As a very
young child I experienced the Holocaust in a way that made it
almost impossible to integrate and make sense of the experience.
For me, there was no life before the war, no secure early childhood
to hold in mind, no context in which to place what was happening to
me and around me. The Holocaust was in the air that I breathed
daily for the first four years of my life. I took it in deeply
without awareness or critical judgment. I ingested it with the milk
I drank from my mother's breast. It had the taste of fear and
despair."Born during the Holocaust in what was once a part of
Poland, Sophia Richman spent her early years in hiding in a small
village near Lwow, the city where she was born. Hidden in plain
sight, both she and her mother passed as Christian Poles. Later,
her father, who escaped from a concentration camp, found them and
hid in their attic until the liberation.The story of the miraculous
survival of this Jewish family is only the beginning of their long
journey out of the Holocaust. The war years are followed by
migration and displacement as the refugees search for a new
homeland. They move from Ukraine to Poland to France and eventually
settle in America. A Wolf in the Attic traces the effects of the
author's experiences on her role as an American teen, a wife, a
mother, and eventually, a psychoanalyst. A Wolf in the Attic
explores the impact of early childhood trauma on the author's:
education career choices attitudes toward therapy, both as patient
and therapist social interactions love/family relationships
parenting style and decisions regarding her daughter religious
orientationRepeatedly told by her parents that she was too young to
remember the war years, Sophia spent much of her life trying to
"remember to forget" what she did indeed remember. A Wolf in the
Attic follows her life as she gradually becomes able to reclaim her
past, to understand its impact on her life and the choices she has
made, and finally, to heal a part of herself that she had been so
long taught to deny.
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