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Participation in writing and creative process offers a unique window to view the evolution of the mourning process. This study traces how a painter's work as shown to such a group reveals and interacts with her developmental progress as she goes through the mourning process in individual therapy with the author, who is also the leader of the writing and creative process group to which the artist belongs. Through these mutually beneficial exchanges, the patient is able to relinquish her constructed false self-identity for an authentic female identity, as seen in the evolution of her painting over her two-year participation in the writing and creative process group.
This paper was one in a series of lectures called >Space and identity< that were given to a public audience during the spring of 1998. >Space and identity< was part of the program for Stockholm as the cultural capital of Europe in 1998 and was arranged by the Museum of Architecture and the two psychoanalytical societies in Stockholm. Building on the theories of especially Winnicott and Bion and with references to literature the paper gives a picture of the development of inner space and of potential space as the place for creativity and creative living.