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.

Autorentext
Refaat Mahfouz is a senior professor of psychiatry, Minia Faculty of Medicine, Egypt. He is the founder of Minia Model of Group Therapy and a basic contributor to development of group therapy in Egypt. Mohamed Taha is an assistant lecturer of psychiatry in the same faculty. He has many scientific and literal works in psychotherapy & art.

Klappentext
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.