The Canvas of Change: Analysis Through the Prism of Creativity

This landmark book is essential reading for anyone engaged in psychotherapeutic work.”–Theodore Jacobs, MD, training and supervising analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry

“A rich and complex study in which the author explores the nature of artistic creativity and how different forms of expression can enrich and inform psychoanalytic understanding and treatment. In one case, she describes in detail how the patient’s use of biblical stories illuminated his psychopathology. In another, she shows how poems and artistic productions allowed for a much deeper exploration and working through of the traumatic events in the patient’s history. Thus, in a fascinating and scholarly way, the author shows not only how her psychoanalytical perspective can further her understanding of the patient’s creativity, but also how this creativity can, in turn, contribute to the therapeutic process, and greater integration in the patient’s personality.”–Michael Feldman, Training Analyst

“This is a beautiful and useful book; a distillation and elaboration of the work of many years. Ilany Kogan writes about her new understandings on creativity and the creative process in psychoanalysis. She enables the analysand to experience and to contain ‘that roar on the other side of silence’ (George Eliot). Masterful in her clinical work, she helps us come to grips with an intimacy and with a depth that is rare to achieve. We owe a great debt to Ilany Kogan and her courageous patients for sharing a journey that we all can learn from.”–Monica Horovitz, PhD