The Captive Muse: On Creativity and Its InhibitionWhy is creative work often so difficult? What helps and what hinders us in doing it? What makes such work possible? This book answers these central questions and offers therapists fruitful, nonpathologizing ways of thinking about creative people, and what the creative process can mean to those involved in it. |
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When the Resistance Is to Content | 1 |
Resistance and the Unconscious Meanings of | 13 |
Revision and Character | 27 |
Copyright | |
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