Eminent Creativity, Everyday Creativity, and Health

New Work on the Creativity/Health Interface

Häftad, Engelska, 1998

Av Mark A. Runco, Ruth Richards, Mark a. Runco, Mark a. Runco

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Eminent Creativity, Everyday Creativity, and Health brings together key past and present cutting-edge papers in the hot area of creativity and mental health. Included are major papers that have attracted interest in the international press (including the New York Ties, Japan's Asahi Weekly, and New Scientist in England). Other emphases include creativity and unhappy childhoods, coping with adversity, and immune function and health. Nowhere else is all this material available in one place, together with helpful integration and synthesis. For anyone interested in creativity and health, this book offers a one-stop shopping approach.

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Utgivningsdatum1998-01-16
Vikt794 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor1
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781567501759

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PrefaceAbout the ContributorsIntroductionEMINENT CREATORS: PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS AND CREATIVITYCreativity and Mental Illness: Prevalence Rates in Writers and Their First-Degree RelativesMood Disorders and Patterns of Creativity in British Writers and ArtistsCreative Achievement and Psychopathology: Comparison Among ProfessionsCreativity, Mental Health, and AlcoholismEVERYDAY CREATORS: PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS AND CREATIVITYCreativity, Preference for Complexity, and Physical and Mental IllnessCreativity in Manic-Depressives, CyHardcoverymes, Their Normal Relatives, and Control SubjectsMood Swings and CreativitySchizotypal and Hypomanic TraitsCreativity, and Psychological HealthPSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH AND CREATIVITYAdaption and Resilient Coping: Disorders of the Pathways Involved in the Creative ProcessThe Healing Power of Art: The Case of James EnsorThe Healing Power of Music: Some Observations on the Semiotic Function of Transitional Objects in Musical CommunicationEnhanced Well-Being and Self-Actualization: Creativity and Mental Health in Everyday LifeGrowth From Deficiency Creativity to Being CreativityCreativity and Self-ActualizationNeurological and Immunological Factors: Dual Brain, Creativity, and HealthDisclosure of Traumas and Immune Function: Health Implications for PsychotherapyLifespan Issues: The Creative Thinking and Ego Functioning of ChildrenFamily Adaptability, Cohesion, and Creativity. Creativity in Old AgeSOCIETAL HEALTH AND CREATIVITYFeature Article: Political Pathology and Societal CreativityCommentaries: Societal Creativity: Problems with PathologyFour Frames for the Study of CreativityThe Origin of Creative Achievement: Spontaneity, Responsibility, and IndividualsInnovation, Illegitimacy, and IndividualismThe Accidental EconomistPsychological Mediators of the Inverse Pathology-Creativity EffectAnabolic and Catabolic Factors in the Creative ProcessRejoinder: Monsieur Appends ReflectionsINTEGRATING PERSONAL PATTERNS AND SOCIETAL POSSIBILITIESThe Clash of Sociotal Philosophies and Personalities in the Nuclear Arms Control Debate: A Healthful Dialectic?Creative Altruism, Cooperation, and World PeaceEVOLUTION OF CREATIVITY, INFORMATION, AND OURSELVESConclusions: When Illness Yields CreativityAuthor IndexSubject Index