ABSTRACT
The aim of this book is to awaken creative desire and expand the imagination of the clinician. It urges the clinician to find her voice, to be poetic, to dare to create, to converse with other disciplines and, most especially, to enter the world of dreams. This is all passed onto the patient as the dyad enters the intersubjective field.
The author hopes to serve as a mentor to her readers, as the author herself has had many mentors, both real and fictional. This is a relational model of development and creativity. While relative chaos is part of the creative process, one cannot stay in this state too long or risk drifting into despair. The mentor helps guide us out. The author discusses her early experience reading Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and how this book and her imaginary relationship with Alice encouraged her to dream and hope.
Each chapter of this volume is meant to surprise the reader and help him see his world in a new way. Many varieties of imagination are explored – the spiritual, the relational, the dreamworld, the aesthetic and the adaptive. The author offers the reader space to reflect, take risks, make new connections and pursue goals.
