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Art, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis Book Series


About the Series

The Art, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis book series seeks to highlight original, cutting edge studies of the relationship between psychoanalysis and the world of art and the psychology of artists, with subject matter including the psychobiography of artists, the creative process, the psychology of aesthetic experience, as well as the aesthetic, creative and artistic aspects of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Art, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis promotes a vision of psychoanalysis as a creative art, the clinical effectiveness of which can be enhanced when we better understand and utilize the artistic and creative processes at its core.

The series welcomes proposals from psychoanalytic therapists from all professional groups and theoretical models, as well as artists, art historians and art critics informed by a psychoanalytic perspective.

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Metamorphoses of Psyche in Psychoanalysis and Ancient Greek Thought From Mourning to Creativity

Metamorphoses of Psyche in Psychoanalysis and Ancient Greek Thought: From Mourning to Creativity

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Marcia D-S. Dobson
December 09, 2022

This unusual book explores the transformative power of liminal experiences in ancient Greek texts, psychoanalytic theory, and the author’s own life, to demonstrate how a contemporary understanding of ancient thought can illuminate modern psychoanalytic theory and practice especially as it relates ...

Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art The Cut in Creation

Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: The Cut in Creation

1st Edition

By Vanessa Sinclair
November 17, 2020

Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art examines a strain of artists spanning more than a century, beginning at the dawn of photography and culminating in the discussion of contemporary artists, to illustrate various psychoanalytic concepts by examining artists working in a multitude of media. Drawing ...

Affect in Artistic Creativity Painting to Feel

Affect in Artistic Creativity: Painting to Feel

1st Edition

By Jussi Saarinen
July 31, 2020

Why do painters paint? Obviously, there are numerous possible reasons. They paint to create images for others’ enjoyment, to solve visual problems, to convey ideas, and to contribute to a rich artistic tradition. This book argues that there is yet another, crucially important but often overlooked ...

Poetry and Psychoanalysis The Opening of the Field

Poetry and Psychoanalysis: The Opening of the Field

1st Edition

By David Shaddock
June 04, 2020

Poetry and Psychoanalysis: The Opening of the Field provides a guide to applying a poet’s imagination and precision of language to the healing endeavours of psychoanalysis while making a lucid journey through 2,000 years of transformative poetry from Virgil, Dante and Blake to the contemporary poet...

Psychoanalysis, Intersubjective Writing, and a Postmaterialist Model of Mind I Woke Up Dead

Psychoanalysis, Intersubjective Writing, and a Postmaterialist Model of Mind: I Woke Up Dead

1st Edition

By Dan Gilhooley, Frank Toich
September 23, 2019

In this in-depth and unique collaboration between a patient and his psychoanalyst, Psychoanalysis, Intersubjective Writing, and a Postmaterialist Model of Mind: I Woke Up Dead examines the unconscious mind by analysing the patient’s novel written during his treatment as the focus. Using the patient...

A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Reading Literature Reading the Reader

A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Reading Literature: Reading the Reader

1st Edition

By Merav Roth
September 02, 2019

What are the unconscious processes involved in reading literature? How does literature influence our psychological development and existential challenges? A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Reading Literature offers a unique glimpse into the unconscious psychic processes and development involved in ...

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