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Book Code: AB9772
ISBN: 0-89391-977-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-89391-977-1
Ablex Publishing
Publication: 1/1/1994
List Price: $126.95 (UK Sterling Price: £70.00)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Paperback
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Description: The authors of this volume attempt to cohere the field of creativity and affect in a scholarly fashion by categorizing and characterizing some of its major features, including environmental influences; underlying processes; specific affective states; the role of atypical or pathological personalities; unconscious processes; physiological components; proactive and reactive stimuli; intrinsic motivation; eminence versus everyday creativity; and testing of assessing the affective component of creativity. The authors also examine and discuss the role that emotions, feelings and moods play in the creative process. This volume also provides a vehicle for students and psychotherapists, with which they can fully appreciate the feelings generated by the creative process and the various stages of it. How does a creator feel during its more mundane phases? Can he or she tolerate the frustration of failing and being unsuccessful most of the time? What is the real joy of achievement, success, and ultimate acceptance by one's peers in a given field? Do we have to exhibit major psychopathological features in order to achieve eminence in specific fields? What is the role of mind altering substances, mood disorders, and the like? This volume answers these questions and more.
Table of Contents:
  • Contributors
  • Preface
  • SPECIFIC AFFECTIVE STATES
  • Affective Components of Scientific Creativity
  • Creativity and Bipolar Mood Swings: Why the Association?
  • Bipolar Disorder and Creativity
  • Giddiness and Horror in the Creative Process
  • Creativity and its DisCONTENTS
  • INTRINSIC MOTIVATION
  • Situational Affect: Proactive and Reactive Creativity
  • Generative Sources of Creative Functioning
  • Making It or Finding It
  • PSYCHOLOGICAL AND BIOLOGICAL FEATURES
  • Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience in Relationship to Dreams and Creativity
  • Affect, Hemispheric Specialization, and Creativity
  • Creativity, Intentionality, and Alexithymia: A Graphological Analysis of Split-Brained Patients and Normal Controls
  • Creativity of Religious Symbols
  • GENERAL OVERVIEW
  • Conclusions Concerning Creativity and Affect
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index.
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