Imagination, Creativity and Spirituality in Psychotherapy: Welcome to Wonderland

This book aims to awaken the creative desire and expand the imagination of the psychotherapist and her patient, exploring various types of imagination and offering space for reflection, daydreaming, and pursuing goals. It synthesizes research from multiple fields to understand the unconscious processes and early memories and how they can be used to help patients become more imaginative, creative, hopeful, and resilient. The emphasis on surprise, uncanny communication, interdisciplinary inquiry, dreamwork, and the imagination of the body stimulates the creativity of the reader and provides practical techniques for deeper understanding and effective treatment.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 188 pages
\n Publication date: 29 September 2020
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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The aim of this book is to awaken creative desire and expand the imagination of the psychotherapist and, in turn, her patient. Each chapter is meant to surprise the reader and help him see the world in a new way. Many varieties of imagination are explored -- the spiritual, the relational, the dreamworld, the aesthetic, and the adaptive. The author offers space to reflect, to daydream, to remember; space to pursue goals, to make new connections; space to take risks and space to be wrong. The psychotherapist is encouraged to find her own voice, be poetic, dare to create, converse with other disciplines, and, most especially, enter the world of dreams. This is all passed onto the patient as the dyad enters the intersubjective field.

Both scholarly and practical, this volume elegantly and persuasively synthesizes for the first time research in many fields, including spirituality and Kabbalah, neuroscience, the arts, biology, and artificial intelligence, to give an in-depth and original understanding of the current pressing problems in the rapidly changing field of psychotherapy: how do we work with unconscious processes and early memories to help our patients become more imaginative, creative, hopeful, and resilient, and in so doing, heal? The relationship between the body and creative imagination is fully explored as well as the disruptive effect of trauma on the imagination and how to address this.

The emphasis on surprise, uncanny communication, interdisciplinary inquiry, use of dreamwork, and the imagination of the body -- how it spontaneously meets new challenges -- all stimulate the creativity of the reader. Through numerous case studies, the author illustrates the practical implications of how this exploration allows for deeper understanding and more effective treatment. With the in.

\n Weight: 318g\n
Dimension: 230 x 156 x 19 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780367280031\n \n