Sophia Richman

Mended by the Muse: Creative Transformations of Trauma (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the relationship between trauma and creativity. It is about art in the service of healing, mourning, and memorialization.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136914034
• Artikelnr.: 40808023

Autorenporträt

Sophia Richman is a psychoanalyst and psychologist who has been in private practice for over forty years. She is affiliated with the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, where she is on the supervising faculty. She is the author of the award-winning memoir, A Wolf in the Attic: The Legacy of a Hidden Child of the Holocaust (Routledge, 2002), and she is a painter.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Out of Darkness. Understanding Creativity: The Theoretical
Landscape. Inspiration, Insanity and the Paradox of Dissociation. The
Survivor and the Muse. Art Born of Genocide. Conversations with Artists.
Orfanos, Music and the Great Wound. When the Analyst Writes a Memoir.
Jung's Memoirs. Confrontation with Mortality.

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Introduction. Out of Darkness. Understanding Creativity: The Theoretical Landscape. Inspiration, Insanity and the Paradox of Dissociation. The Survivor and the Muse. Art Born of Genocide. Conversations with Artists. Orfanos, Music and the Great Wound. When the Analyst Writes a Memoir. Jung's Memoirs. Confrontation with Mortality.

Rezensionen

"In this profound, novel, and moving account of the role of creativity in healing trauma-that is, in the very process of developing her ideas--Sophia Richman offers us a living example of being "mended by the muse." But that is the least of what we learn here. We readers, too, have suffered trauma and dissociation. If we allow ourselves to dwell in Richman's sense of what creative action can do, we too are mended in reading these pages, and we emerge from them better able than we were before to mend ourselves, and to assist in the mending of others. A stirring and beautiful book."- Donnel Stern, Ph.D.

"With this extraordinary book Dr. Richman not only offers a contemporary theoretical explanation of creativity but she also takes the reader into the minds of artists as they experience this enlivening and restorative process. The emphasis on experience makes the book invaluable for clinicians whose work is guided by recognizing the healing power residing in interacting subjectivities. With its breadth and depth, the book is also highly recommended to those who wish to embark on a most satisfying journey that penetrates the mystery of creativity." - Anna Ornstein, M.D. Professor Emerita, University of Cincinnati; Lecturer in Psychiatry Harvard Medical School


"The relationship between creativity and mental illness has been one of the most debated issues in psychology. In this heavily researched volume, Sophia Richman reviews the insights psychoanalysis has contributed to this issue, through the lens of the tragic turmoils of the last century and of her personal experience. In the process, she convincingly argues that as the pearl that forms inside the oyster's shell to protect it from abrasive sand, creativity is formed to protect us from otherwise intolerable aspects of life." - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Management, Claremont Graduate University, CA, USA