Psychotherapy as a Creative Process

Psychotherapy is usually viewed as a process of §help, reparation and personal growth. Although §creativity is the real essence of psychotherapy, few §works have approached psychotherapy from its §creative aspect. This book investigates the creative §potentials of psychotherapy. It tries to answer §several questions: Is psychotherapy a creative §process? Can the psychotherapeutic process follow §the same stages of known models of creativity? Are §the concepts of creativity and psychotherapy §constant among different cultures? The book falls §into two parts; the first presents a theoretical §review of some psychological thoughts on creativity §and an application of those thoughts to §psychotherapy. The second is a clinical comparison §between two models of creativity from one side and a §qualitatively analyzed psychotherapeutic process §from the other side. The theory that emerged from §this work can provide practicing psychotherapists §and psychotherapy trainees a deeper understanding of §both processes; psychotherapy and creativity. This §book might also be of special interest to those §considered with personal growth, group process or §qualitative research.