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Abstract
Aim of the work
This work aims at studying the assumption that the psychotherapeutic process (in one of the Minia therapy groups) might follow the same stages/phases/micro-processes of a well known model of the creative process.
The researcher will analyze a certain theme (issue) from the studied therapy group and try to detect how the therapeutic work regarding that issue has evolved, developed and worked through. He will probably be able to put this in stages/phases/steps that might be matched to those of a well known model of creativity.
Clinical data are derived from audio and video recordings of group psychotherapy sessions that were held in Minia Psychiatry & Neurology Department, Egypt.
Conclusions
Psychotherapy can be regarded as a creative process in the sense that it can follow the same stages and micro-processes of a well known creativity model; Barron’s 1988.
In the light of that model, the analyzed therapeutic process could be clustered into:
1- Initial sensing, exploration and conception: Conception.
2- Therapeutic group work, including three sub-phases: Gestation.
a. No apparent work
b. Indirect work
c. Direct work
3- Appearance of new meaningful insights, illuminations, and/or decisions for change: Parturition.
4- Verification of the new insights/illuminations/decisions and further realization and responsibility for them: Bringing Up.
Recommendations
■ Recommendations based on the difficulties of the methodology
1- Emphasizing the conduction of more research in group psychotherapy using qualitative methods, as it was found to be more suitable to the nature of the data collected from group sessions.
2- Analyzing the therapeutic work regarding the theme of ”True Femininity” in other groups to see if it gets the same results of this study.
3- Analyzing group themes other than ”True Femininity” to see if their therapeutic work follows the same stages of the creative process, just as the work in ”True Femininity” theme did.
4- In future studies, it is recommended to conduct the analysis in Arabic language (language of patient’s experience), as the process of English translation of the original scripts might not convey the exact inner experiences as lived and expressed by patients, no matter how clever is the translator or accurate is the translation.
■ Recommendations based on the results and the discussion
1- Matching the therapeutic work regarding certain group themes (including the theme studied in this research) to other models of the creative process (other than Wallas’ 1926 and Barron’s 1988), a matter that can solidify the results of this study.
2- Investigating the factors that might have favored the creative therapeutic work in the studied theme (and other themes), and factors that might have tried to block it. This would help psychotherapy practitioners to be aware of those factors which strongly affect their therapeutic process and products.
3- Investigating the same broad research question: Is Psychotherapy a Creative Process? from other aspects, for further verification and research interest. Examples of those aspects are:
- The creation of something new and meaningful in the patients’ psychic world.
- The creative integration of several theoretical backgrounds, clinical skills and socio-cultural orientations into one model of conducting group psychotherapy.
- The creation and maintenance of a good therapeutic atmosphere and environment.
- The Successful, effective and helpful formation and use of metaphor in psychotherapy.
- The moments where a therapeutic block/resistance is transformed into a therapeutic work/change.
- The creative use of language in psychotherapy.