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Portraits of the Artist: Psychoanalysis of Creativity and Its Vicissitudes

Portraits of the Artist: Psychoanalysis of Creativity and Its Vicissitudes

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Publication Date: December 2nd, 2016
Publisher:
Routledge
ISBN:
9781138154018
Pages:
330

Description

Gedo's pathbreaking exploration of the psychology of creativity incorporates first-hand material drawn from his extensive clinical work with artists, musicians, and other exceptionally creative individuals. Using this body of clinical knowledge as conceptual anchorage, he then offers illuminating reassessments of the artistic productivity of van Gogh, Picasso, Gauguin, and Caravaggio, and the literary productivity of Nietzsche, Jung, and Freud.

About the Author

John E. Gedo, M.D., retired in 1990 as Training and Supervising Analyst, Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is the author of numerous books for Analytic Press, including The Biology of Clinical Encounters (1991) and The Mind in Disorder (1998).