Chaos and Control
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-57041-9 (ISBN)
This book explores the role of chaos and control in the creative process as well as the difference between talent and creativity. Part One describes explores some of the common biases and pitfalls in the analysis and therapy of creative people, the role of the accidental in creative work, the nature of creative blocks, passion and its absence, as well as the problem of being able to exercise one's freedom. The author describes the special needs of creative patients, the common problems arising in therapy, its solutions, and, most importantly, the analyst's distinctive role when dealing with such patients. She also probes into the role of narcissism, neurosis, and psychosis on creative work.
Desy Safán-Gerard, Ph.D., is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of California in Los Angeles. She has led a threefold life in music, painting and psychoanalysis. Her book is based on her papers and presentations in the USA, Europe and South America over the last forty years. As a practicing psychoanalyst, she focuses on the unique needs of creative patients in treatment.
Part 1: Theories, Conditions, And Obstacles 1. Chaos and control in the creative process 2. Talent and creativity 3. The role of the accident in the creative act 4. The psychodynamics of creative blocks 5. On not knowing: discerning the mental and emotional requirements of creative work 6. Why bother? From indifference to passion 7. Is creativity dangerous? 8. Art and madness Part 2 : My Own Development 9. Music: my first love 10. How painting became a passion 11. Creativity: from the painting studio to the consulting room 12. The evolution of a painting 13. Love and hate in the creative process 14. Destructiveness and reparation: a retrospective 15. From mistake to mistake: the creative process in four large paintings 16. As in the flesh
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.07.2023 |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 562 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie |
| ISBN-10 | 1-032-57041-5 / 1032570415 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-57041-9 / 9781032570419 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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