Creativity And Mental Illness

Author : James C. Kaufman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107021693
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creativity and Mental Illness written by James C. Kaufman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book re-examines the common view that a high level of individual creativity often correlates with a heightened risk of mental illness.

Author : James C. Kaufman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781316641385
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creativity and Mental Illness written by James C. Kaufman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are creative people more likely to be mentally ill? This basic question has been debated for thousands of years, with the 'mad genius' concept advanced by such luminaries as Aristotle. There are many studies that argue the answer is 'yes', and several prominent scholars who argue strongly for a connection. There are also those who argue equally strongly that the core studies and scholarship underlying the mad genius myth are fundamentally flawed. This book re-examines the common view that a high level of individual creativity often correlates with a heightened risk of mental illness. It reverses conventional wisdom that links creativity with mental illness, arguing that the two traits are not associated. With contributions from some of the most exciting voices in the fields of psychology, neuroscience, physics, psychiatry, and management, this is a dynamic and cutting-edge volume that will inspire new ideas and studies on this fascinating topic.

Author : S. Kyaga
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137345810
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creativity and Mental Illness written by S. Kyaga and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there really a thin line between madness and genius? This book provides a thorough review of the current state of knowledge on this age old idea, and presents new empirical research to put an end to this debate, but also to open up discussion about the implications of its findings.

Author : Russell Eisenman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781792408199
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creativity Mental Illness and Crime written by Russell Eisenman and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tony Gillam
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331974884X
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creativity, Wellbeing and Mental Health Practice written by Tony Gillam and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that some aspects of mental health practice have become mechanical, joyless and uninspiring, leading to a loss of creativity and wellbeing. A high level of wellbeing is essential to mental health and contemporary mental health care – and creativity is at the heart of this. A greater awareness of everyday creativity, the arts and creative approaches to mental health practice, learning and leadership can help us reinvent and reinvigorate mental health care. This, combined with a clearer understanding of the complex concept of wellbeing, can enable practitioners to adopt fresh perspectives and roles that can enrich their work. Creativity and wellbeing are fundamental to reducing occupational stress and promoting professional satisfaction. Introducing a new model of creative mental health care combined with recommendations for wellbeing, Creativity, Wellbeing and Mental Health Practice is a practical, evidence-based book for students, practitioners and researchers in mental health nursing and related disciplines.

Author : Kelley A. Raab
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754664581
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creativity, Spirituality, and Mental Health written by Kelley A. Raab and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book emphasizes the integral connections between imagination, creativity, and spirituality and their role in healing. Part One highlights the work of a neglected yet important psychoanalyst, Marion Milner - a painter and undeclared mystic - expanding her work on creativity, mysticism, and mental health. Part Two explores imagination and creativity as expressed in fostering hope and in spiritually-oriented therapies, particularly for mood, anxiety, and eating disorders - offering practical application of studies in imagination and the arts. Raab Mayo concludes that both creativity and the potential for transcendence are inherent in the human psyche and can work as allies in the process of healing from mental illness.

Author : Albert Rothenberg
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421400472
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creativity and Madness written by Albert Rothenberg and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1994-09-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Kay Redfield Jamison
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307498484
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Unquiet Mind written by Kay Redfield Jamison and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-01-21 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A deeply powerful memoir about bipolar illness that has both transformed and saved lives—with a new preface by the author. Dr. Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness; she has also experienced it firsthand. For even while she was pursuing her career in academic medicine, Jamison found herself succumbing to the same exhilarating highs and catastrophic depressions that afflicted many of her patients, as her disorder launched her into ruinous spending sprees, episodes of violence, and an attempted suicide. Here Jamison examines bipolar illness from the dual perspectives of the healer and the healed, revealing both its terrors and the cruel allure that at times prompted her to resist taking medication.

Author : Kay Redfield Jamison
Publisher : Free Press
ISBN 13 : 9780684831831
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Touched With Fire written by Kay Redfield Jamison and published by Free Press. This book was released on 1996-10-18 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive work on the profound and surprising links between manic-depression and creativity, from the bestselling psychologist of bipolar disorders who wrote An Unquiet Mind. One of the foremost psychologists in America, “Kay Jamison is plainly among the few who have a profound understanding of the relationship that exists between art and madness” (William Styron). The anguished and volatile intensity associated with the artistic temperament was once thought to be a symptom of genius or eccentricity peculiar to artists, writers, and musicians. Her work, based on her study as a clinical psychologist and researcher in mood disorders, reveals that many artists subject to exalted highs and despairing lows were in fact engaged in a struggle with clinically identifiable manic-depressive illness. Jamison presents proof of the biological foundations of this disease and applies what is known about the illness to the lives and works of some of the world's greatest artists including Lord Byron, Vincent Van Gogh, and Virginia Woolf.

Author : Robert W. Weisberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108479405
Total Pages : 515 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Creativity written by Robert W. Weisberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover how creativity depends on inside-the-box thinking-that's right, not outside the box-and a new perspective on creative thinking.