Creative Analysis

"Creative Analysis: Art, Creativity, and Clinical Process" leads us closer to understanding how the creative process evolved as an adaptation to the human condition. Without art we simply cannot contain our deepest existential anxieties. Read George Hagman's book and you will better grasp Nietzsche's insight that, "we need art so we do not die of the truth." - Malcolm Owen Slavin, Ph.D., Co-author of, The Adaptive Design of the Human Psyche: Psychoanalysis, Evolutionary Biology and the Therapeutic Process.

"In Creative Analysis: Art, Creativity and Clinical Process, George Hagman, illustrates the relevance of the psychoanalytic arts in the 21st century. He demonstrates how patients are "failed artists of their lives," and delineates the clinical processes that establish conditions for psychological repair, vital creative living and fulfilling relationships. Clinicians will enhance their own work through a close study of Mr. Hagman's new book"- Dr. Carol M. Press, lecturer, University of California at Santa Barbara, Author of "The Dancing Self: Creativity, Modern Dance, Self Psychology and Transformative Education"; co-author "Creating Dance: A Traveler's Guide".

"Drawing from a wellspring of creative production in art, science and clinical practice, George Hagman's argument that art is a basic human need is both provocative and refreshing. In Creative Analysis: Art, Creativity and Clinical Process, Hagman furthers our understanding of human experience as a process of creative self actualization within which art, life and clinical psychoanalytic treatment are inseparable"- Linda Cummings, L.C.S.W., M.F.A., Psychotherapist, artist, and photographer. New York City. Adjunct Faculty, International Center of Photography, NY, USA

"Creative Analysis: Art, Creativity, and Clinical Process" leads us closer to understanding how the creative process evolved as an adaptation to the human condition. Without art we simply cannot contain our deepest existential anxieties. Read George Hagman's book and you will better grasp Nietzsche's insight that, "we need art so we do not die of the truth." - Malcolm Owen Slavin, Ph.D., Co-author of, The Adaptive Design of the Human Psyche: Psychoanalysis, Evolutionary Biology and the Therapeutic Process.

"In Creative Analysis: Art, Creativity and Clinical Process, George Hagman, illustrates the relevance of the psychoanalytic arts in the 21st century. He demonstrates how patients are "failed artists of their lives," and delineates the clinical processes that establish conditions for psychological repair, vital creative living and fulfilling relationships. Clinicians will enhance their own work through a close study of Mr. Hagman's new book"- Dr. Carol M. Press, lecturer, University of California at Santa Barbara, Author of "The Dancing Self: Creativity, Modern Dance, Self Psychology and Transformative Education"; co-author "Creating Dance: A Traveler's Guide".

"Drawing from a wellspring of creative production in art, science and clinical practice, George Hagman's argument that art is a basic human need is both provocative and refreshing. In Creative Analysis: Art, Creativity and Clinical Process, Hagman furthers our understanding of human experience as a process of creative self actualization within which art, life and clinical psychoanalytic treatment are inseparable"- Linda Cummings, L.C.S.W., M.F.A., Psychotherapist, artist, and photographer. New York City. Adjunct Faculty, International Center of Photography, NY, USA

"The creative potential space of analysis which allows for and promotes the meeting of the me and the not me is, of course, the bedrock of any good therapy. Hagman has extended our understanding of such a therapeutic potential space and its fruition in selfcreation which, of course, is the positive side of healing of the wounds that life inflicts - be they from childhood or beyond." - Gerald J. Gargiulo, The Psychoanalytic Review, Vol. 102