Albert Rothenberg views psychotherapy through the lens of the creative process. He looks at the complex acts of creativity in psychotherapy, the similarities between creative acts in the arts and psychotherapy, and the mechanisms of creativity. He believes that the therapist's special sense of engaging in a worthy activity derives from its creative aspects—specifically from the paradoxical mixture of consistent rigor and free rein intuitiveness. He has studied creative people in the arts and sciences, has reviewed manuscripts