Desy Safan-Gerard

Chaos and Control (eBook, PDF)

A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Unfolding Creative Minds

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429841071
• Artikelnr.: 54035531

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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