Art, creativity, and psychoanalysis : perspectives from analyst-artists / edited by George Hagman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hagman, George, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creative ability--Psychological aspects.

Creative ability.

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)--Psychological aspects.

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Psychoanalysis and art.

Physical Description:

xx, 186 pages, 8 numbered pages of plates ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Summary:

Art, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis: Perspectives from Analyst-Artists collects personal reflections by therapists who are also professional artists. It explores the relationship between art and analysis through accounts by practitioners who identify themselves as dual-profession artists and analysts. The book illustrates the numerous areas where analysis and art share common characteristics using first-hand, in-depth accounts. These vivid reports from the frontier of art and psychoanalysis shed light on the day-today struggle to succeed at both of these demanding professions. The chapters consist of personal essays by analyst/artists who are currently working in both professions; each has been trained in and is currently practicing psychoanalysis or psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The goal of the book is to provide the audience with a new understanding of psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic processes from the perspective of art and artistic creativity. Drawing on artistic material from painting, poetry, photography, music and literature, the book casts Light on what the creative processes in art can add to the psychoanalytic endeavour, and vice versa. Art, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis: Perspectives from Analyst-Artists will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists, theorists of art, academic artists, and anyone interested in the psychology of art. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction / by George Hagman (Editor)

Coming into being as artist and psychotherapist : keeping self from falling together too soon / Karen M. Schwartz, Ph.D

To build a new world : creative and aesthetic choices in psychoanalysis / David Shaddock

Making waves / Linda Cummings

Shame and its undoing : a performer's desire to be found / Rosalind Chaplin Kindler

Artist/analyst / Diane Lawson Martinez

I've got a rock and roll heart : reflections of a musician-analyst / Heather Ferguson, LCSW

Writing, healing and being healed : my life in poetry and psychoanalysis / Lee Whitman-Raymond

Reclamation and restoration : heroes in the seaweed / Sandra Indig

On being able to paint / Anna Carusi

On being and becoming / Julia Schwartz

Echo / Dan Gilhooley, L.P., M.A

The art(s) of witness : through the camera and the psychoanalytic situation / Donna Bassin, Ph.D.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138859111

1138859117

9781138859128

1138859125

OCLC:

960905643