The Creative Mystique

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The Creative Mystique is written by Susan Kavaler-Adler and published by Psychology Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0415914132 (ISBN 10) and 9780415914130 (ISBN 13).

Through the life stories of women such as Camille Claudel, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Anne Sexton, Suzanne Farrell and others and through clinical case studies, Susan Kavaler-Adler offers penetrating insights into the nature of the creative process. Kavaler-Adler contrasts unsuccessful psychological treatments with object-relations therapy that is able to resolve the pathological narcissism of creative addiction and allow the emergence of healthy modes of self-expression.