Creativity and Madness
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Creativity and Madness

New Findings and Old Stereotypes

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eBook - ePub

Creativity and Madness

New Findings and Old Stereotypes

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. 1. A Scientist Looks at Creativity
  8. 2. The Creative Process in Art and Science
  9. 3. Inspiration and the Creative Process
  10. 4. The Mystique of the Unconscious and Creativity
  11. 5. Psychosis and the Creation of Poetry
  12. 6. Self-destruction and Self-creation
  13. 7. The Perils of Psychoanalyzing (or Scandalizing) Emily Dickinson
  14. 8. The Psychosis and Triumph of August Strindberg
  15. 9. Homosexuality and Creativity
  16. 10. The Muse in the Bottle
  17. 11. Eugene O’Neill’s Creation of The Iceman Cometh
  18. 12. Creativity and Mental Illness
  19. 13. Psychotherapy and Creativity
  20. Notes
  21. Index