Museum of the Creative Process

The Museum of the Creative Process is funding a multi-center research project validating the unconscious as the core paradigm by using Formal Theory’s Conflict Analysis Battery, CAB, a self-assessment, available online, free of charge

In anticipation of a workshop to be delivered in April, I would like your support in validating the claim identifying the core paradigm, addressing the theme of the SEPI Conference. According to the Formal Theory (FT), the core paradigm is in the analysis of the creative process, the plot of stories, reflecting the unconscious as a conflict resolution energetic and attitude transformation scientific homeostatic mechanism.

The FT analyzes the structure of the creative process as a syndrome of six emotions leading to four types of resolutions, the relational modalities, a wellness personality typology. The creative process is analyzed as transforming conflict, unpleasant energy, abiding by the laws of two scientific phenomena: the Simple Harmonic Motion, capturing energy of conflict and the equilibrial formal operations of the scale, restoring the rest state by transforming attitudes: passivity to activity, antagonism to cooperation, and alienation to mutual respect.

The claim of the creative process as a scientific conflict resolution process, as the core paradigm, is validated using creativity for self-discovery by completing the Conflict Analysis Battery. Test takers in about four hours identify the two components of the unconscious: the six-emotions syndrome and the four relational modalities with dramatic therapeutic benefit. They become conscious of the unconscious. At the end of the assessment test takers evaluate the experience in a 20-item query. Was it didactic, diagnostic and therapeutic? Is it suitable for clinical and educational delivery? How valuable was the experience?

I plan to fund five therapists to give the self-assessment to ten patients who will then examine the test-takers' query responses and evaluate the criteria noted as follows. Funding consists of a $3000 stipend and a free introductory weekend workshop, early March, at the Museum of the Creative Process in Manchester VT. Participating researchers are invited to present their findings at the workshop in April and in publications of their own. In order to be considered for funding, please respond to this email with information about your practice, training, and professional interests. The self-assessment link is available for therapists interested in using it, but only the qualified reviewers will be rewarded monetarily. https://cab.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_d0xwLFs9l3C3Y45.

After completion, researchers will answer a series of questions found here. https://cab.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4InlNalif53gtIW.

Items include:
1. Does the CAB help the test-taker become conscious of the unconscious?
2. Does the sequence of creativity exercises, metaphor creation tasks, reflect a six-role emotional dialectic starting with a conflict and ending with a resolution?
3. Is the resolution visually evident in the test-taker's artwork profile as depicted in the computer-generated report?
4. Does the process of six roles, as a syndromal conflict resolution, begin with the stress state, defined as passivity, antagonism, and alienation, and end with a compromise state, defined as mastery, cooperation and mutual respect? (To answer this question, you compare the stress metaphors, initial tests, to the final metaphor, the Short Story.)
5. Does the dialectic of six emotions indicate closure of a periodic phenomenon, a unit order?
6. Do the four types of conflict resolution, the relational modalities, help to understand wellness psychology as well as pathology psychodynamically, in terms of the syndromal organization of emotions?
7. Does a conflict resolution leading to a relational modality represent an attitude transformation?
8. Are you familiar with the two phenomena of science involved in the scientific analysis of the creative process? These are the Simple Harmonic Motion, capturing energy of conflict, and the formal operations transforming it restoring balance in the trays of a scale, Felix Klein’s set theory, (I=RNC: Identity operation, corresponding to stress, is equal to the product of reciprocity, transforming passivity to activity, opposition/negation transforming antagonism to cooperation, and correlation transforming alienation to mutual respect.)
9. The Formal Theory is founded on the relational method. Current psychological theories are founded on the propositional method. Are you familiar in the methodological differences between propositional and relational methods?
10. Can we conclude that the function of the unconscious is a homeostatic scientific conflict resolution entity motivated by reducing conflict as psychic discomfort by transforming this energy into resolutions as attitude changes, as moral growth, effectively achieving social-adjustment?
11. Are the wellness diagnoses actionable distinctions unlike the DSM5 illness diagnoses?