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The author of this book is a training and supervising analyst with the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. The Institute of the NPAP, which trains analysts from a wide variety of disciplines, was founded by Theodor Reik in 1948 in New York City, when he did not see eye to eye with the American Psychoanalytic Association. In addition to mental health professionals, visual artists, screen writers, novelists, musicians, dancers, and mimes are also trained by this institute. Roland, who has been in psychoanalytic practice for the last 35 years, is also an exhibited artist and a writer of plays and librettos. He is well qualified to address the multi-layered relationships between dream and drama.
The book is divided into three parts: The Artist and the Artistic Process; Dream, Imagery, and Creativity; and Psychoanalytical Criticism. The first part focuses on the psychotherapy of the career artist. It highlights the major struggles that these artists go through in coping with conflicts that impede their developing a meaningful and successful artistic career. Roland presents four relatively short clinical illustrations to substantiate the conclusion he reached after treating a wide range of artists, i.e., that much of the psychological