Playing Along the Porous Edge of Chaos and Discipline: Pathways to the Creative Analytic Process

Abstract

The oscillation between chaos and discipline plays along a porous line of form and formlessness. The ability to play with these polarities represents an important part of creative expression.

Notes

Arthur Robbins, Ed.D., has been affiliated with NPAP and taught on the faculty for over 45 years. He is founding Director of the Institute of Expressive Analysis and a pioneer of the art therapy movement that started in 1970, founding the Creative Arts Therapy Department at Pratt Institute. Among his seven books, The Processing of Transference and Countertransference Material and The Psychoaesthetic Experience are particularly relevant to this article.