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Spyros D. Orfanos: I am so happy to have this opportunity to speak with you, because I find your body of work amazing. You've done a tremendous amount of work in the area of creativity: You have written four books and dozens of articles, and you have taught and lectured on the subject. I'd like to ask you about a few other areas besides the study of creativity, because you've so elegantly integrated the creative and the clinical. But let me begin by asking you some background questions, and then we'll get into the actual work you've done. You're a psychologist and a psychoanalyst and also an art critic?
An Interview with Danielle Knafo Phd is a clinical psychologist and a psychoanalyst. She is a professor in the clinical psychology doctoral program at Long Island University's C.W. Post Campus, Associate Professor and Supervisor at New York University's Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and Faculty and Supervisor at the Adelphi University Derner Institute's postgraduate programs in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. Dr. Knafo has expertise in the psychology of art and has lectured and published extensively in that area. Her first book, Egon Schiele: A Self in Creation , is a psychoanalytic study of the artist's self-portraits. She is also the editor of Living with Terror, Working with Trauma: A Clinician's Handbook , co-author (with Kenneth Feiner) of Unconscious Fantasies and the Relational World, and author of In Her Own Image: Women's Self Representation in Twentieth-Century Art . Dr. Knafo maintains a private practice in Great Neck, NY, and New York City.
Danielle Knafo: Yes.
SDO: And you write a tremendous amount about creativity and you study creativity. How do you find the integration of all that for yourself?
DK: The wearing of different hats? I've been an immigrant a few times, so I grew up with one foot in one culture and the other foot in another culture. I've become accustomed to moving fluidly from one world to another. That's how I