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.

Introduction by George Hagman

1. Coming into Being as Artist and Psychotherapist: Keeping Self from Falling Together Too Soon Karen M. Schwartz


2. To Build a New World: Creative and Aesthetic Choices In Psychoanalysis David Shaddock


3. Making Waves Linda Cummings


4. Shame and Its Undoing: A Performer's Desire to Be Found Rosalind Chaplin Kindler


5. Artist/Analyst Diane Lawson Martinez


6. I've Got A Rock and Roll Heart: Reflections of a Musician-Analyst Heather Ferguson


7. Writing, Healing and Being Healed: My Life in Poetry and Psychoanalysis Lee Whitman-Raymond


8. Reclamation and Restoration: Heroes in the Seaweed Sandra Indig


9. On Being Able to Paint Anna Carusi


10. On Being and Becoming Julia Schwartz


11. Echo Dan Gilhooley


12. The Art(s) of Witness: Through the Camera and the Psychoanalytic Situation Donna Bassin