Download or read book The Creative Mystique written by Susan Kavaler-Adler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the life stories of women such as Camille Claudel, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Anne Sexton, Suzanne Farrell and others and through clinical case studies, Susan Kavaler-Adler offers penetrating insights into the nature of the creative process. Kavaler-Adler contrasts unsuccessful psychological treatments with object-relations therapy that is able to resolve the pathological narcissism of creative addiction and allow the emergence of healthy modes of self-expression.