Emotional Illness and Creativity: A Psychoanalytic and Phenomenologic Study

Using a phenomenologic as well as a psychoanalytic approach, Dr. Chessick explores the viewpoints of philosophers, psychoanalysts, cultural historians, artists, and others on the issue of creativity and emotional illness. His phenomenologic approach is based on Sartre's notion of each individual's "project," while his psychoanalytic approach is influenced by the traditional conceptions of Freudian psychoanalysis as well as object relations theory and self psychology.
This volume has appeal for psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, and psychologists with an interest in psychodynamic issues, for clinicians who treat artists, and for philosophers, literary critics, cultural historians, and students of any of these disciplines.