Painting and Our Inner World: The Psychology of Image Making

Acknowledgements. Introduction: Art, the body, and relationships. 1. Artists and their biographies. 2. Image makers and their purposes: our methods. 3. First cluster: narrative informality and compensatory longings. 4. Second cluster: inhibited, disconnected forms and downcast angry lives. 5. Third cluster: bold, flowing process and the direct expression of emotion. 6. Fourth cluster: dense paintings and relentless control. 7. Fifth cluster: imposed order, inhibition, and the acceptance of parental standards. 8. Sixth cluster: consistent style and the need to integrate. 9. Seventh cluster: abstraction, avoidance, and the search for firm boundaries. 10. Art making, maps of interpersonal space, and the world of art. Appendix A: Psychological analysis of the clusters: a partial replication; J. Keiser, K. Berlin. Appendix B: Interview forms and statistical tables. References.