ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. It promotes the value of increased capacity for creativity and creative living as the desirable analytic objective. From this perspective effective treatment is associated with a fundamental change in the patient's relationship with both inner and outer worlds, involving the emergence of new and surprising meanings and experiences. The process of Creative Analysis encourages the analyst to recognize the uniqueness of each analytic process and person, and to be exquisitely sensitive to his or her impact on the analysand, and most important, the way the analyst can facilitate or block the creative processes that are set in motion by the psychoanalytic situation. Psychoanalysis evokes an objectification of the self, a subjective object, the transference. In this way a potential space is created for the analyst and analysand to work on the self, making self-experience itself the object of creative effort.
