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Full Title

Creativity and Madness New Findings and Old Stereotypes
Author(s)

Albert Rothenberg
Edition
ISBN

9781421400471, 9780801849770
Publisher

JHUP
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

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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