ABSTRACT

This chapter is devoted to creativity and creative methods used as a way to unlock the silent aspects of experience and to free up new connections. This is a way to counteract women's feelings of being silenced and remaining silent due to their experiences of being on the margins of society and feeling judged and shamed. It begins by exploring creativity and the use of creative methods in psychotherapy such as using a creative object, temporal sequencing of verbs, reverie, paralinguistics and right brain processes formed in the first 2 years of life. These implicit cues are to guide the therapist's intuition and show the depth of relationship and connection, this is also the realm of intersubjectivity, the place of two-person psychotherapy, a place of attunement in which the woman's defence mechanisms can be safely explored and released, unlocking the client's own intuitive processes in her right brain. The chapter ends with a clinical vignette.