Eminent Creativity, Everyday Creativity, and Health

nco /f Mark /i A. hards /f Ruth

• 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