Art, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis

Art, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis: Perspectives from Analyst-Artists collects personal reflections by therapists who are also professional artists. It explores the relationship between art and analysis through accounts by practitioners who identify themselves as dual-profession artists and analysts. The book illustrates the numerous areas where analysis and art share common characteristics using first-hand, in-depth accounts. These vivid reports from the frontier of art and psychoanalysis shed light on the day-to-day struggle to succeed at both of these demanding professions.-

George Hagman, LCSW, is a clinical social worker and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York and Stamford, Connecticut. He is on the faculty of the Training and Research Institute for Self Psychology, and the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. This book is a companion piece to Hagman's prior Routledge volume Creative Analysis: Art, Creativity and Clinical Process (2015).

Introduction by George Hagman Coming into Being as Artist and Psychotherapist: Keeping Self from Falling Together Too Soon Karen M. Schwartz To Build a New World: Creative and Aesthetic Choices In Psychoanalysis David Shaddock Making Waves Linda Cummings Shame and Its Undoing: A Performer's Desire to Be Found Rosalind Chaplin Kindler Artist/Analyst Diane Lawson Martinez I've Got A Rock and Roll Heart: Reflections of a Musician-Analyst Heather Ferguson Writing, Healing and Being Healed: My Life in Poetry and Psychoanalysis Lee Whitman-Raymond Reclamation and Restoration: Heroes in the Seaweed Sandra Indig On Being Able to Paint Anna Carusi On Being and Becoming Julia Schwartz Echo Dan Gilhooley The Art(s) of Witness: Through the Camera and the Psychoanalytic Situation Donna Bassin