ABSTRACT
A life lived creatively comes in many forms, from the day to day pleasures taken in the rhythms and changes of inner and outer worlds to the artistically creative person who needs to create and make things as both a journey of discovery and a reason for living. This chapter provides an overview and looks at how the areas of symbolism, language, and patriarchy affect women’s abilities to express themselves creatively, and how fear and rage may dominate when they are attempting to find their own voice. In an attempt to discover multi-faceted women or goddesses who also embrace and respect shadow aspects of femininity, psychotherapists have looked to the East. The difficulty of being a female psychotherapist or a female patient is to be confronted daily with the issues of being “less than”, within a theoretical and professional framework that rarely questions this.
