ABSTRACT
Developed by Goodman the process of creative adjustment views the subject’s relationship with their situation as primary rather than the subject in isolation. All healthy creative adjustments require making contact with what is now, rather than relating to a past picture of how things were. Conversely, a client who is overly self-supporting may present as armoured in his body, not fully breathe in the environment and hold a self-supporting posture with the muscular tension. Also, let us not overlook that there are two histories of the creative adjustments meeting in the therapy room. There are as many different creative adjustments as there are artist’s brushstrokes or poet’s stanzas, but just as in the art and poetry patterns and styles of the creative adjustments emerge. The founders of gestalt identified different families of processes used to creatively adjust to one’s environment.
