WCP 2025

Statement of the problem: Creativity can serve to transform constructively despair, hate and violence. But creative efforts to cope with depression and aggression can also fail.
Methodology & theoretical Orientation: Summarizing the “Big Five of Creativity” as a result of creativity research we show on the example of Madonna, Amy Winehouse and Taylor Swift, Mick Jagger and Jim Morrison how eminent creative Pop-Icons treat personal despair and hate but also collective violence. Finally, we draw conclusions in respect to everyday creativity and psychotherapy.
Findings: The “Big Five of Creativity” - gifts and talents (1), skills and knowledge (2), motivation and discipline (3), flexibility and resilience (4), supportive and challenging environments (5) - interact in the creative transformation of despair, hate and violence. Investigating the lives and works of extraordinarily creative Pop-Stars like Madonna and Amy Winehouse, Jim Morrison and Mick Jagger it is shown how the creative transformation can succeed but also how it can fail.
Conclusions: Extraordinary and everyday creativity are elementary means to cope with despair, hate and violence. They are necessary to lead a fulfilling personal life in social responsibility. Creativity can be effective in different approaches to psychotherapy: relational (A), behavioral (B), cognitive (C), psychodynamic-psychoanalytic (D) and existential (E) (see Holm-Hadulla 2021).

Statement of the problem: Modular and common factor approaches in psychotherapy are a central issue in psychotherapy research. It seems necessary to mark the limitations of specific approaches and to detect where interdisciplinary perspectives are indispensable. This presentation is an attempt to integrate psychotherapeutic models as well as neurobiological, psychological and socio-cultural and practical aspects of psychotherapy.
We offer a comprehensive psychotherapeutic model which integrates relational, cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic-psychoanalytic and existential aspects. In this process neuro-biological, psychologic and socio-cultural perspectives come into play.
Methodology & theoretical orientation: The case of a patient suffering from schizotypic episodes is studied under the perspectives of relational, cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic-psychoanalytic and existential psychotherapy. In a hermeneutic circle biological, psychological and socio-cultural findings are integrated.
Findings: It is shown that psychotherapy can and should include psychological, cultural and neurobiological knowledge. The dialectics between coherence–incoherence, stabilization–destabilization, construction–deconstruction of cognitions, emotions, and actions are shown to be general principles that can be found in neuroscientific, psychological and cultural approaches in psychotherapy.
Conclusions: The interdisciplinary reflection of different psychotherapeutic methods leads to a practical model that can integrate relational, cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic-psychoanalytic and existential aspects of psychotherapy.