ABSTRACT
Creativity involves a number of qualities such as productivity, inventiveness, originality. As understanding of creativity increased, psychoanalytic thought and perhaps its ethos itself was affected and modified. Our 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 author believes that there has been an interacting and reciprocal relationship in the development of the studies of art and creativity on the one hand, and the theoretical and clinical discoveries of analysts on the other. An analyst who possesses a rich imaginal life can help to give impetus to the imaginal development of patients. The capacity to imagine depends on its existence, a trust rarely possessed by, for instance, and patients with a narcissistic character disorder.
