The Creative Therapist

Bradford Keeney, PhD, is presently Professor, Department of Transformative Studies, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, and Clinical Director, Center for Children and Families, Monroe, Louisiana. He has served distinguished careers as a social cybernetician, systemic therapist, anthropologist of cultural healing traditions, conversation analyst, improvisational performer, and creative consultant. Kenney has directed several doctoral programs and has worked at some of the most highly respected psychotherapy institutes, including the Ackerman Institute, the Karl Menninger Center, and the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic at the University of Pennslyvania. He is the originator of several orientations of psychotherapy and the inventor of a reserach method that discerns pattern in conversation ("recursive frame analysis"). Kenney presently is utlizing what he has learned from the arts and sciences across diverse cultural traditions to explore uncommon creativity in psychotherapy and the transformative arts.

Erickson, Preface. Introduction: Therapy: Dead or Alive? Part I: Bringing it Forth. Theatre of Creative Transformation. Three-act Therapeutic Performances. In-and-Out-of-the-Box Musings. Part II: Awakening a Session. "Man of Plenty." "A Night in the Love Corral." "Weight-ing to Leave." "Cody." "Pea Shooter Love." "Seaman's Song for His Son." "Spiritual Eyes for Trance." "Making the News." "Magmore." Part III: "Therapy of Therapy." Christine Apple Nut's Theatre of Therapy. The Psychoanalyst Who Wanted to be a Priest. Funny Medicines for Children. Absurd Action Koans for Therapists. The Therapeutic Crossroads.