Dissertation Title:
Creativity: A State of Being
Candidate:
Roseli Ribeiro
Date, Time & Place:
December 14, 2023 at 2:15 pm
Virtual
Abstract
Creativity, distinct from artistic talent, reveals a relevant role during early development on subsequent adult experiences of creative living in this study, providing an original contribution to the field of clinical psychology.�� The formulations about the nature of creativity, in the sense applied to this research, was developed by Donald Winnicott, who was a British pediatrician and psychoanalyst. In this theoretical study, creativity considered as a state of being, arising out of trust and relaxation, was adopted to explore the human experience of feeling alive as a health factor of psyche-soma development, relating to a sense of self with themselves and with the other.�� Engaging in a hermeneutic methodology, the relationship between primary creativity and psychological development was examined through depth psychological scholarship.�� The psychoanalytic theoretical underpinning in this study was object relations theory, with a more specific focus on the work of Winnicott, particularly the concept of holding (starting from the mother-infant experience, evolving into evermore complex relationships), the facilitating environment, and potential space, with case illustrations.
- Program/Track/Year: Clinical Psychology with Emphasis in Depth Psychology, A, 2017
- Chair: Dr. Avedis Panajian
- Reader: Dr. Elizabeth Schewe
- External Reader: Dr. Edward Rounds
- Keywords: Creativity, Early Development, Donald Winnicott, Alive, Health Factor, Hermeneutic Methodology, Object Relations, Holding, Facilitating Environment, Potential Space
