Creativity and Madness: New Findings and Old Stereotypes - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Johns Hopkins University PressISBN-13:9780801849770ISBN-10:0801849772UPC:9780801849770Book Category:PsychologyBook Subcategory:Creative Ability, Cognitive Psychology & CognitionSize:9.04 x 5.83 x 0.52 inchesWeight:0.309Product ID:SC842PH7Y5
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Johns Hopkins University PressISBN-13:9780801849770ISBN-10:0801849772UPC:9780801849770Book Category:PsychologyBook Subcategory:Creative Ability, Cognitive Psychology & CognitionSize:9.04 x 5.83 x 0.52 inchesWeight:0.309Product ID:SC842PH7Y5
Albert Rothenberg, M.D., is clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard University and director of research at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. His books include The Emerging Goddess: The Creative Process in Art, Science, and Other Fields.
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