This volume brings together some of the papers presented by leading scholars, artists and psychoanalysts at an annual Creativity Seminar, organized by the Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center. Looking at creativity through a psychoanalytic lens - and very importantly, vice versa - the authors examine great works (The Scarlet Letter, Mahler's Eighth and The Miracle Worker) as well as great artists (Van Gogh and Lennon/McCartney) for what we might learn about the creative process itself.

Deepening this conversation are a number of clinical studies and...