This book is for those readers who have a strong interest in creativity and the creative process from the perspective of the artist/analyst. Wrapped in colors, lines, textures, and words is the fascinating, ambiguous, often mysterious story of a life told through images associated with words and words associated with images.
The collection draws from aesthetic, spiritual concerns and those of science and psychoanalysis. Implied, often veiled, ambiguous reference to numerous modalities of expression bring to the level of consciousness both personal and universal emotions often as not, hidden and unspoken. With deeply felt humility, Indig goes to the edge of mythic-poetic worlds and dares her readers to look into the abyss for darkly hidden jewels adorning the cloth of humanity.
Sandra Indig is a psychotherapist specializing in psychoanalysis and art therapy. She lectures on creativity, the creative process, psychoanalysis, and trauma, nationally and internationally. Indig is a graduate of the New York University School of Social Work and Washington Square Institute for Psychotherapy and Mental Health, and serves as Committee Chair, Creativity & Neuro-Psych-Ed of the New York State Society for Clinical Social Work. Her chapter entitled "Reclamation and Restoration: Heroes in the Seaweed" is included in Art, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis: Perspectives from Analyst-Artists (George Hagman, ed., Routledge, 2016). Indig has curated art exhibits (New York State Society for Clinical Social Work, Institute for Object Relations), held residencies at art colonies (MacDowell, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts), and is a member of the New York Artists Circle and The American Alliance of Museums. Indig is in private practice in New York City.