Springs of Creativity

By H. Westman

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0933029055
• ISBN13: 9780933029057
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Chiron Pubns
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.5" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Westman sings from the sources of creativity.

Heinz Westman is one of the great psychotherapists of the twentieth century. He was a colleague of Carl Jung and a founder of the field of art therapy. Springs of Creativity contains the first published case study on the use of art in the therapeutic process. The book opens with insightful and beautifully written chapters on the nature of psychotherapy, the shadow, archetypes, dreams, and creativity. In part two, Westman provides profound interpretations of the spiritual and psychological meaning of the biblical legends of Genesis, Abraham and Isaac, Cain and Able, Jacob and Esau, and Job. His interpretation of the book of Job is stunningly unique; it surpasses any I have ever read. The third part of Springs represents the Case of Joan, in which the healing process is tracked through the client's thirty drawings and paintings. It should be mandatory reading for religion and divinity students and trainees in depth psychology and for any reader on a pilgrimage toward greater spiritual and psychological awareness and a more creative life.