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The Creative Feminine and her Discontents Psychotherapy, Art and Destruction
By Juliet Miller
Copyright 2008
176 Pages
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Routledge
168 Pages
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Routledge
168 Pages
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Routledge
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The Creative Feminine and her Discontents, Psychotherapy, Art, and Destruction, is a look at creativity from a woman's perspective. By looking at artistic endeavour, mothering and psychotherapeutic relationships, Juliet Miller considers how a patriarchal world distorts the channels through which women discover their own creative voices. She argues that the dynamics of female creativity are more... Read more
Introduction -- Creativity and Fear -- The search for a voice -- Using a voice -- Creativity and Procreativity -- The dilemma of motherhood -- The problem of infertility -- Creativity and Psychotherapy -- History, gender, and relating -- Patriarchy and hate in training institutes -- Creativity and Art -- Power and vulnerability in the work of Louise Bourgeois -- Creative destruction in the work of Cornelia Parker -- Conclusion
Biography
Juliet Miller is a Jungian Analyst with a private practice in London. Prior to training as an analyst she worked as a documentary film maker on environmental, social and women's issues. She is especially interested in creative expression and the interface between the arts and psychotherapy. She is co-editor with Jane Haynes of Inconceivable Conceptions. Psychological Aspects of Infertility and Reproductive Technology.
