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The creative feminine and her discontents : psychotherapy, art, and destruction

By Miller , Juliet

Book information

Publisher
Karnac Books
Year
2008
ISBN
9781849406505, 1849406502
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1066420 bytes)
Pages
152\169
Time added
2015-05-17 15:16:13
Creative ability in women SELF HELP Creativity PSY

Description

This book is an attempt to look at creativity from a female 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 multi- layered and conflicted for women for a variety of historical, cultural and archetypal reasons and suggests that an attack on the creative feminine has been exacerbated by the history and teaching of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Miller looks to the a.  Read more...

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