Everyday Creativity and New Views of Human Nature

Ruth Richards, MD, PhD, is a board certified psychiatrist and educational psychologist. She is a professor of psychology at Saybrook Graduate School in San Francisco, California a research affiliate at McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts (psychiatric affiliate of Massachusetts General Hospital) and a lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. For many years, Dr. Richards has studied everyday creativity in clinical and educational settings and has published on creativity and social action as well as spiritual development. She is the principal author of The Lifetime Creativity Scales, which broke new ground as a broad-based assessment of real-life everyday creativity in a general population. With Mark A. Runco, Dr. Richards coedited Eminent Creativity, Everyday Creativity, and Health. She served on the executive advisory board for the Encyclopedia of Creativity and is also on the editorial boards of three journals: The Creativity Research Journal The Journal of Humanistic Psychology and Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, the journal for APA Division (Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts), where she is also an at-large member of the executive committee. Personally, Dr. Richards draws, writes, plays three instruments badly, and learns even more about creativity from her teenage daughter.

• ContributorsForeword-Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiIntroduction-Ruth RichardsI. Creativity and Our Individual LivesEveryday Creativity: Our Hidden Potential-Ruth RichardsLiving Well Creatively: What's Chaos Got to Do With It?-David SchuldbergArtist and Audience: Everyday Creativity and Visual Art-Tobi ZausnerTo Understand Is to Create: An Epistemological Perspective on Human Nature and Personal Creativity-Mark A. RuncoAudience Flow: Creativity in Television Watching With Applications to Teletherapy-Steven R. PritzkerStructures of Consciousness and Creativity: Opening the Doors of Perception-Allan Combs and Stanley KrippnerII: Creativity and SocietyTelling the New Story: Darwin, Evolution, and Creativity Versus Conformity in Science-David LoyeStanding Up for Humanity: Upright Body, Creative Instability, and Spiritual Balance-Mike AronsCreativity in the Everyday: Culture, Self and Emotions-Louise Sundararajan and James R. AverillA amp quot Knowledge Ecology amp quot View of Creativity: How Integral Science Recasts Collective Creativity as a Basis of Large-Scale Learning-S. J. GoernerCyborgs, Cyberspace, Cybersexuality: The Evolution of Everyday Creativity-Frederick David AbrahamOur Great Creative Challenge: Rethinking Human Nature-and Recreating Society-Riane EislerIII: Integration and ConclusionsTwelve Potential Benefits of Living More Creatively-Ruth RichardsAuthor IndexSubject IndexAbout the Editor