The Creative Therapist

In The Creative Therapist, Bradford Keeney makes the case that "creativity" is the most essential aspect of vibrant, meaningful, and successful therapy. Using a collection of clinical case studies this book illustrates how creativity may be brought into therapy. and prescribes various strategies for awakening clinical creativity as well as finding your own unique style of therapeutic presence and performance.

Bradford Keeney, PhD, is presently Professor, Department of Transformative Studies, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, and Clinical Director, Center for Children and Families, Monroe, Louisiana. He has served distinguished careers as a social cybernetician, systemic therapist, anthropologist of cultural healing traditions, conversation analyst, improvisational performer, and creative consultant. Kenney has directed several doctoral programs and has worked at some of the most highly respected psychotherapy institutes, including the Ackerman Institute, the Karl Menninger Center, and the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic at the University of Pennslyvania. He is the originator of several orientations of psychotherapy and the inventor of a reserach method that discerns pattern in conversation ("recursive frame analysis"). Kenney presently is utlizing what he has learned from the arts and sciences across diverse cultural traditions to explore uncommon creativity in psychotherapy and the transformative arts.