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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 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.
Albert Rothenberg, a psychiatrist, and Carl R. Hausman, a
philosopher, have prepared a truly comprehensive interdisciplinary
book of readings on creativity. This group of selections from the
works of writers in psychiatry, philosophy, psychology,
psychoanalysis, and education brings together, for the first time,
major theoretical works, outstanding empirical findings, and
discussions of the definition and nature of creativity.
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