Creativity and Madness: New Findings and Old Stereotypes - Softcover

Rothenberg, M.D. Albert

 
9780801849770: Creativity and Madness: New Findings and Old Stereotypes
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0801849772 ISBN 13: 9780801849770
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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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Psychiatry/Psychology --'In this excellent, concise volume, Rothenberg reports his current views on this fascinating subject...Well argued and judicious.... I Cannot recommend this book too highly.' Journal of the American Medical Association

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Verlag
Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1994
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0801849772
ISBN 13 
9780801849770
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
208
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