From Two Psychologists.
Dr. Leanne Domash
Leanne Domash, PhD is a psychologist/psychoanalyst, writer and playwright and Certified Embodied Imagination Practitioner. Dr. Domash has written and spoken widely about the creative process, the healing power of art, the psychology of women, the value of dreamwork and the implicit spirituality embedded in the psychotherapy process.
She has recently published Imagination, Creativity and Spirituality in Psychotherapy: Welcome to Wonderland, the aim of which is to awaken creative desire and expand the imagination of the psychotherapist and in turn, his or her patient.
Dr. Domash is Clinical Consultant in the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis where she consults with postdoctoral candidates; Voluntary Psychologist, Mt. Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center, New York where she supervises psychiatric residents, NY; Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, New York, NY. She maintains a private practice in New York in individual and group psychotherapy.
Dr. Terry Marks-Tarlow
Terry Marks-Tarlow, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Santa Monica, California. Along with deep, transformational work, she specializes in the creative process and its blocks. She is adjunct professor at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, and at California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, where she teaches courses to PhD students in interpersonal neurobiology, clinical intuition, clinical writing, and nonlinear science.
Dr. Marks-Tarlow has written/edited more than ten professional books, including Psyche’s Veil: Psychotherapy Clinical Intuition in Psychotherapy: Psychotherapy, Fractals and Complexity; Awakening Clinical Intuition; A Fractal Epistemology for a Scientific Psychology, and Mythic Imagination Today: The Interpenetration of Mythology and Science. Dr. Marks-Tarlow believes in the power of imagery. Along with illustrating her own books, she created a coloring book with guided scripts, Truly Mindful Coloring.
Dr. Marks-Tarlow strongly advocates the power of the arts for personal healing and social change. She co-founded and curated an annual exhibition of psychotherapist visual and performance art, “Mirrors of the Mind: The Psychotherapist as Artist.” She has also written librettos for two operas that premiered with ballets at Lincoln Center in New York City. To embody her own philosophy, she strives to draw, dance ballet and jazz, do yoga, and play the piano regularly.
