ABSTRACT
According to Winnicott, “The link can be made, and usefully made, between creative living and living itself, and the reasons can be studied why it is that creative living can be lost and why the individual’s feeling that life is real or meaningful can disappear”. As the burden of life often implicates psychic pain and tribulation, one can perhaps paraphrase, re-frame, this seminal remark and claim that it would be useful to establish a link between creative suffering and suffering itself. In Winnicott’s view, when psychoanalysis has attempted to address the issue of creativity, it has largely lost sight of its main theme. Psychotropic drugs are a contemporary blessing, indeed, a most valuable clinical instrument. In fact, creativity enters into virtually every aspect of life, and, therefore, there is no reason why it should not enter into management of distress.
