Creativity Finds Its Way Into the Psychoanalytic Consulting Room

Abstract

This article presents an analogy between aesthetic creativity and the creative process in analytic treatment. The analogy is based on the dialogic nature of artistry in creative endeavors and treatment dyads. The openness to multiple realms of input, present and past, and mutual influencing are stressed. Clinical examples and modes of clinical approach are offered in illustration.

Notes

Joseph Lichtenberg, M.D., is Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Inquiry and the Psychoanalytic Book Series, Founder and Director Emeritus, Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.