Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 349 g
New Findings and Old Stereotypes
Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 349 g
ISBN: 978-0-8018-4977-0
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Intrigued by history's list of "troubled geniuses,"Albert Rothenberg investigates how two such opposite conditions—outstanding creativity and psychosis—could coexist in the same individual. Rothenberg concludes that high-level creativity transcends the usual modes of logical thought—and may even superficially resemble psychosis. But he also discovers that all types of creative thinking generally occur in a rational and conscious frame of mind, not in a mystically altered or transformed state.
Far from being the source—or the price—of creativity, Rothenberg discovers, psychosis and other forms of mental illness are actually hindrances to creative work. Disturbed writers and absent-minded professors make great characters in fiction, but Rothenberg has uncovered an even better story—the virtually infinite creative potential of healthy human beings.
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Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. A Scientist Looks at Creativity
Chapter 2. The Creative Process in Art and Science
Chapter 3. Inspiration and the Creative Process
Chapter 4. The Mystique of the Unconscious and Creativity
Chapter 5. Psychosis and the Creation of Poetry
Chapter 6. Self-Destruction and Self-Creation
Chapter 7. The Perils of Psychoanalyzing (or Scandalizing) Emily Dickinson
Chapter 8. The Psychosis and Triumph of August Strindberg
Chapter 9. Homosexuality and Creativity
Chapter 10. The Muse in the Bottle
Chapter 11. Eugene O'Neill's Creation of The Iceman Cometh
Chapter 12. Creativity and Mental Illness
Chapter 13. Psychotherapy and Creativity
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