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Eminent Creativity, Everyday Creativity, and Health Mark A. Runco

Eminent Creativity, Everyday Creativity, and Health By Mark A. Runco

Eminent Creativity, Everyday Creativity, and Health by 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. Other emphases include creativity and unhappy childhoods, coping with adversity, and immune function and health.

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Eminent Creativity, Everyday Creativity, and Health Summary

Eminent Creativity, Everyday Creativity, and Health: New Work on the Creativity/Health Interface by Mark A. Runco

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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Table of Contents

Preface About the Contributors Introduction EMINENT CREATORS: PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS AND CREATIVITY Creativity and Mental Illness: Prevalence Rates in Writers and Their First-Degree Relatives Mood Disorders and Patterns of Creativity in British Writers and Artists Creative Achievement and Psychopathology: Comparison Among Professions Creativity, Mental Health, and Alcoholism EVERYDAY CREATORS: PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS AND CREATIVITY Creativity, Preference for Complexity, and Physical and Mental Illness Creativity in Manic-Depressives, CyHardcoverymes, Their Normal Relatives, and Control Subjects Mood Swings and Creativity Schizotypal and Hypomanic Traits Creativity, and Psychological Health PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH AND CREATIVITY Adaption and Resilient Coping: Disorders of the Pathways Involved in the Creative Process The Healing Power of Art: The Case of James Ensor The Healing Power of Music: Some Observations on the Semiotic Function of Transitional Objects in Musical Communication Enhanced Well-Being and Self-Actualization: Creativity and Mental Health in Everyday Life Growth From Deficiency Creativity to Being Creativity Creativity and Self-Actualization Neurological and Immunological Factors: Dual Brain, Creativity, and Health Disclosure of Traumas and Immune Function: Health Implications for Psychotherapy Lifespan Issues: The Creative Thinking and Ego Functioning of Children Family Adaptability, Cohesion, and Creativity. Creativity in Old Age SOCIETAL HEALTH AND CREATIVITY Feature Article: Political Pathology and Societal Creativity Commentaries: Societal Creativity: Problems with Pathology Four Frames for the Study of Creativity The Origin of Creative Achievement: Spontaneity, Responsibility, and Individuals Innovation, Illegitimacy, and Individualism The Accidental Economist Psychological Mediators of the Inverse Pathology-Creativity Effect Anabolic and Catabolic Factors in the Creative Process Rejoinder: Monsieur Appends Reflections INTEGRATING PERSONAL PATTERNS AND SOCIETAL POSSIBILITIES The Clash of Sociotal Philosophies and Personalities in the Nuclear Arms Control Debate: A Healthful Dialectic? Creative Altruism, Cooperation, and World Peace EVOLUTION OF CREATIVITY, INFORMATION, AND OURSELVES Conclusions: When Illness Yields Creativity Author Index Subject Index

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CIN1567501753A
9781567501759
1567501753
Eminent Creativity, Everyday Creativity, and Health: New Work on the Creativity/Health Interface by Mark A. Runco
Used - Well Read
Paperback
ABC-CLIO
19980116
560
N/A
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