The Creative Arts as Healing/ Healing as a Creative Art

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Sunday Dialogue Program

The Creative Arts as Healing/ Healing as a Creative Art

with

Psychologist, Charlotte Doyle, PhD & Composer, Chester Biscardi

Sunday, January 16, 2022, 1:00-3:30pm, on Zoom

3 CE Credit hours

Program Description: How did celebrated works of art and breakthroughs in science come to be? What was the first inkling? What were the steps and missteps along the way? How was the process experienced by the creative person as it proceeded? These were the questions Charlotte Doyle asked as she explored the lived experience of making of specific works. She followed the clues from traces left behind: diaries, notebooks, sketches, drafts, letters, and qualitative interviews. The research culminated in her recent book, The Creative Process: Stories from the Arts and Sciences. Drawing on a narrative-phenomenological framework, each chapter tells the story and notes the features of a creative episode as it unfolded.
Many of the stories reveal the imprint of childhood. But can the process resolve personal issues even as the work has universal meaning? How do the features of the creative process contribute to this dual outcome? Chester Biscardi became a co-explorer into the nature of his creative process as Charlotte Doyle interviewed him and read diary entries made during the time he was composing his Piano Quintet. Charlotte and Chet will replicate some of this process in their live dialogue. Chet’s story shows remarkable similarity to that told by Virginia Woolf about the writing of To the Lighthouse—both stories of healing through creating a work of art.
The creative process is not limited to the arts and sciences. During the discussion period participants will have the opportunity to reflect on their experience of the creative process in psychoanalytic work. How do these experiences match or differ from what has been described? Are new concepts needed?

 

Charlotte L. Doyle, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology at Sarah Lawrence College. With Wilbert J. McKeachie, she coauthored the text, Psychology, three further editions, and a Spanish translation. Later she was the sole author of Explorations in Psychology. At the turn of the millennium, she grappled with the problem of defining psychology by writing the definition entry for the American Psychological Association’s Encyclopedia of Psychology. Research articles include her work on the creative process in children, fiction writers, actors, and teachers; theoretical articles have dealt with conceptualizing the creative domain, the challenge of creative flow for cognitive psychology, reasons why we enjoy “sad music,” and the implications of creativity theory and research for education.  She is also the author of seven picture books for children. Her most recent book, The Creative Process: Stories from the Arts and Sciences includes a chapter on the creation of two of Chester Biscardi’s compositions.

 

Chester Biscardi’s music has been performed throughout Asia, Europe, and North and South America. His catalog includes At the Still Point, for orchestra, Sailors & Dreamers, for voice and chamber ensemble, Tight-Rope, a chamber opera in nine uninterrupted scenes, Trasumanar, for twelve percussionists and piano, and works for piano, voice, chorus, and chamber ensembles, as well as incidental music for theater, dance, and television. Recordings appear on the Albany, Bridge, CRI (New World Records), New Albion, and Steinway & Sons labels, among others, including a Naxos American Classics release entitled Chester Biscardi: In Time’s Unfolding. Biscardi is a recipient of the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Academy Award in Music from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and a commission from the Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress, among numerous other awards and fellowships. Please see chesterbiscardi.com for further information.

 

Russell Merritt, LCSW (Moderator)

Faculty & Senior Supervisor, Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

 

Registration form

A zoom link will be sent to registrants one or two days prior to the event.

For further information or questions please send an email to:

 

Russell Merritt, LCSW: [email protected]

If you do not receive a timely email response, telephone:

Nobuko Meaders, LCSW: 212-288-6988

 

This program is approved for 3CE Credit Hours.

 

MPG Consulting is an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Social Workers (#0119) and for Licensed Psychoanalysts (3P-0034). MPG Consulting, LCSW, PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health.

Details

Date:
January 16, 2022
Time:
1:00 pm - 3:30 pm
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