Analytical Psychology

A produção criativa na arte e na doença

Observando a biografia de escritores, pintores, poetas e artistas em geral, percebemos que um elo que os une é a criatividade.

The Dark Feminine

For some of us, if not for all, meaning in life periodically finds its way through a piercing and deadly darkness. Hopelessness and despair can descend like a toxic cloud, even in the midst of a joy-filled life, a life of spiritual discipline and intent, and dedication and commitment to conscious growth.

Forms and Transformations of Narcissism (excerpt)

Excerpt: Pp. 106-118 from "Forms and Transformations of Narcissism" (1966). In Self Psychology and the Humanities: Reflections on a New Psychoanalytic Approach. by Heinz Kohut.

Constructing the Self, Constructing America (excerpt)

I hope that by studying the interpenetrating relationship between psychotherapy and Western-particularly American-society in eras past, we will be able to develop interpretations about their current relationship, and our current era.

Affect in Psychoanalysis: A Clinical Synthesis (excerpt)

"Excitement, Certainty, Relational Coordination, and Competence": excerpt from a chapter on narcissism in Charles Spezzano's book on affect.