Creativity Spirituality and Mental Health

This book emphasizes the integral connections between imagination creativity and spirituality and their role in healing. First the author highlights the work of a neglected yet important psychoanalyst Marion Milner - a painter and undeclared mystic - expanding her work on creativity mysticism and mental health. Second she explores imagination and creativity as expressed in fostering hope and in spiritually-oriented therapies particularly for mood anxiety and eating disorders - offering practical application of studies in imagination and the arts. Raab Mayo concludes that both creativity and the potential for transcendence are inherent in the human psyche and can work as allies in the process of recovery from mental illness.