Psychotherapy and the Creative Patient

A fascinating exploration of using creativity as the key to the healing process. From the earliest moments of the psychotherapeutic relationship, the creative alliance of patient and therapist motivates the process. In this new and enlightening book, experts offer valuable insights into using psychotherapy as a means of developing and stimulating a patient's creativity. They examine a variety of successful strategies for spurring on a patient's creative forces--which provides both respite and insight--thereby awakening excitement in the patient and evoking in him or her a new awareness.