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Psychotherapy for People in the Arts
Do artists need to suffer in order to produce great art? Do they have a particular kind of neurosis
that requires a special kind of therapy?
Since 1979 The Living Center has been trying to understand the nature of creativity in order to free artists from the shackles of emotional conflicts. We don’t believe that artists need to suffer in order to produce great art; rather their sensitive senses—their eye for color and form, ear for music, sense of touch and movement, and their ability to see beyond convention—make them more susceptible to all forms of psychological disorders. Studies have shown that a high number of people in the arts have suffered from depression, manic depression and alcoholism, to name a few.
In therapy we work explore the struggles of writers, visual artists, actors, musicians and anybody else who wants free their creativity, helping them to reconcile their overwhelming need to create and the self-doubts, frustrations and neuroses that block their potential. We guide people through the issues that are related to their particular blocks and help them understand how their family history, present relations and genetic can combine to impede the flow of their natural gifts.
In specific, we help artists deal with problems such as:
+ internalized self-hatred
+ the conflict between commercial success and artistic success
+ anger and blocked tears
+ the drive for an impossible perfection
+ emotional alienation and acting out
Our approach combines psychoanalysis, art therapy, gestalt therapy, psychodrama, bioenergetics and meditation. We believe that in working with artists and anyone else that the therapy must be emotional as well as intellectual in order to bring about change.
ORDER TODAY!
Psychotherapy
with People in the Arts
Nurturing
Creativity
By
Gerald
Schoenewolf
“In rich and varied case studies, the
author carefully weaves the theoretical concepts of psychoanalytic thought with
the concrete data of the tortured lives of his patients. The result is a stimulating and creative
understanding of artists’ resistance to success and the resolution of neurotic
behavior through interpretation. This
work will reaffirm therapists’ perception of neurotic behavior as symbolic and
treatable….The lay reader will be fascinated to read how the collaboration of
patient and doctor to unravel the ‘layers of the onion’
can restore the artist’s creative
functioning to its full potential.”
--Robert Pepper, PhD, psychotherapist and
author
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