The Creative Mystique: From Red Shoes Frenzy to Love and Creativity

By Susan Kavaler-Adler

Book Overview

Through the life stories of women such as Camille Claudel, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Anne Sexton, Suzanne Farrell and others and through clinical case studies, Susan Kavaler-Adler offers penetrating insights into the nature of the creative process. Kavaler-Adler contrasts unsuccessful psychological treatments with object-relations therapy that is able to resolve the pathological narcissism of creative addiction and allow the emergence of healthy modes of self-expression.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415914132
• ISBN13: 9780415914130
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"