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Creativity and Madness: New Findings and Old Stereotypes

Creativity and Madness: New Findings and Old Stereotypes


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Intrigued by history's list of "troubled geniuses", Albert Rothenberg investigates how two such opposite conditions - outstanding creativity and psychosis - could co-exist in the same individual. After studying creative geniuses of the past, conducting over 2000 hours of psychiatric interviews with prize-winning writers, artists and scientists, and carrying out psychological experiments with more than 1000 research subjects, Rothenberg concludes that high-level creativity transcends the usual modes of logical thought - and many 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. He asserts that there is nothing pathological in creativity, though it clearly can co-exist with psychosis. Far from being the source - or the price - of creativity, Rothenberg concludes, psychosis and other forms of mental illness are actually hindrances to creative work.

Table of Contents:

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
Notes
Index



About the Author :
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.

Review :
This intriguing theory will no doubt provoke lively debate both in and outside professional circles. For lay readers, however, the book's real pleasure lies in the substantive analyses of Sylvia Plath, August Strindberg, Emily Dickenson, Tennessee Williams, Eugene O'Neill, and William Faulkner. Wilson Library Bulletin Albert Rothenberg has devoted the major part of a distinguished career to a broad program of research on creativity. In his excellent, concise volume, he reports his current views on this fascinating subject... It is well-argued and judicious and, therefore, a useful introduction to the domain of creativity research. Journal of the American Medical Association


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780801849770
  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 208
  • Sub Title: New Findings and Old Stereotypes
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0801849772
  • Publisher Date: 27 Oct 1994
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: 01
  • Weight: 312 gr


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