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PPERSP 7(2):279-296 (2010)

No One Can Hear Me Scream!: The Integration of Expressive Therapy Techniques, Creative Processing of Countertransference Inductions, and the Use of Metaphor in the Psychoanalytically Oriented Outpatient Treatment of a Woman Artist with a Schizoaffective Disorder

Author: Robert Irwin Wolf LPSYA LCAT ATR-BC

Introduction

This case study was originally presented as part of a keynote address given to the New York Art Therapy Association's 4th Annual Educational Symposium, “Creativity and the Role of Art Therapy in Our Quest for Inspiration and Authenticity,” at the Maria Fareri Children's Hospital at Westchester Medical Center in October 2008. It was initially intended to be a brief illustrative example of how creative, expressive modalities can be integrated into intensive depth-oriented psychoanalytic treatment, drawing from ego psychology, object relations, Freudian, and Post-Freudian analytic theories. The response to this presentation, including the encouragement of my friend and mentor, Dr. Arthur Robbins, who attended the presentation, inspired me to expand the original paper into a more complete case study. The paper was further refined when, in October 2009, I presented a more fully developed version to the “Case Presentations by Guest Analysts” course at the Training Institute for the National Psychological Association for
The artwork in this piece can be viewed in color on our Web site at
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Psychoanalysis, where I received further helpful feedback from the group of analysts-in-training and creative art therapists, led by senior analyst Sherman Pheiffer. Further creative elaboration of this material was achieved as a result of discussions with Pierre Boenig, an art therapist, poet, longtime friend, and colleague, and from my colleague Dr. Patricia St. John at the College of New Rochelle.
The content of this material reflects more than 30 years of clinical practice as I have attempted to integrate my early training as an artist, then later as an art therapist, and finally as a psychoanalyst, into a treatment style that brings together these various facets of myself as I strive to apply them in my clinical work.

THIS CLINICAL CASE STUDY WILL ATTEMPT TO DEMONSTRATE THE clinical application of a combination of art therapy, expressive therapy (Robbi

PPERSP 7(2):279-296 (2010)

No One Can Hear Me Scream!: The Integration of Expressive Therapy Techniques, Creative Processing of Countertransference Inductions, and the Use of Metaphor in the Psychoanalytically Oriented Outpatient Treatment of a Woman Artist with a Schizoaffective Disorder

Author: Robert Irwin Wolf LPSYA LCAT ATR-BC

Introduction

This case study was originally presented as part of a keynote address given to the New York Art Therapy Association's 4th Annual Educational Symposium, “Creativity and the Role of Art Therapy in Our Quest for Inspiration and Authenticity,” at the Maria Fareri Children's Hospital at Westchester Medical Center in October 2008. It was initially intended to be a brief illustrative example of how creative, expressive modalities can be integrated into intensive depth-oriented psychoanalytic treatment, drawing from ego psychology, object relations, Freudian, and Post-Freudian analytic theories. The response to this presentation, including the encouragement of my friend and mentor, Dr. Arthur Robbins, who attended the presentation, inspired me to expand the original paper into a more complete case study. The paper was further refined when, in October 2009, I presented a more fully developed version to the “Case Presentations by Guest Analysts” course at the Training Institute for the National Psychological Association for
The artwork in this piece can be viewed in color on our Web site at
Page 279
Psychoanalysis, where I received further helpful feedback from the group of analysts-in-training and creative art therapists, led by senior analyst Sherman Pheiffer. Further creative elaboration of this material was achieved as a result of discussions with Pierre Boenig, an art therapist, poet, longtime friend, and colleague, and from my colleague Dr. Patricia St. John at the College of New Rochelle.
The content of this material reflects more than 30 years of clinical practice as I have attempted to integrate my early training as an artist, then later as an art therapist, and finally as a psychoanalyst, into a treatment style that brings together these various facets of myself as I strive to apply them in my clinical work.

THIS CLINICAL CASE STUDY WILL ATTEMPT TO DEMONSTRATE THE clinical application of a combination of art therapy, expressive therapy (Robbi