ABSTRACT
According to the Oxford Dictionary, to create means to 'bring into being, to cause to exist, to form, to produce'. Thus creativity involves a number of qualities such as productivity, inventiveness, originality. However, it is most important to remember that creativity is none of these alone. For the most important quality needed in any product of the creative process is that it should be imbued with value and excellence, and that it should express our need and search for meaning. Consequently, all creative acts form an integral part of the process of personal growth, development, and the establishment of one's personal identity, which is, of course, a life-long activity. The authors' examination of creativity and therapy indicates that in both activities there must be ability to bear doubt, to bear the pain and anxiety provoked when one jettisons the old and risks innovation, the forming and making of the new, the as yet unknown.
