The Creative Feminine and her Discontents

This book is an attempt to look at creativity from a female perspective. By looking at artistic endeavour, mothering and psychotherapeutic relationships, Juliet Miller considers how a patriarchal world distorts the channels through which women discover their own creative voices. She argues that the dynamics of female creativity are more multi- laye

Juliet Miller is a Jungian Analyst with a private practice in London. Prior to training as an analyst she worked as a documentary film maker on environmental, social and women's issues. She is especially interested in creative expression and the interface between the arts and psychotherapy. She is co-editor with Jane Haynes of Inconceivable Conceptions. Psychological Aspects of Infertility and Reproductive Technology.

Contents1 The search for a voice2 Using a voice3 The dilemma of motherhood4 The problem of infertility5 History, Gender and Relating6 Patriarchy and Hate in Training Institutes7 Power and Vulnerability in the Work of Louise Bourgeois 8 Creative Destruction in the Work of Cornelia Parker