Everyday Creativity and the Healthy Mind: Dynamic New Paths for Self and Society (Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture)

Richards, Ruth

ISBN 10: 1137557656 / ISBN 13: 9781137557650

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

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2018. 2018th Edition. hardcover. . . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Everyday Creativity and the Healthy Mind: Dynamic New Paths for Self and Society (Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture)
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1137557656
• ISBN 13: 9781137557650
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

As human beings we all have creative potential, a quality essential to human development and a vital component to healthy and happy lives. However this may often remain stifled by the choices we make, or ways in which we choose to live in our daily lives. Framed by the “Four Ps of Creativity” – product, person, process, press – this book offers an alternative understanding of the fundamentals of ordinary creativity. Ruth Richards highlights the importance of “process”, circumventing our common preoccupation with the product, or creative outcome, of creativity. By focusing instead on the creator and the creative process, she demonstrates how we may enhance our relationships with life, beauty, future possibilities, and one another. 

This book illustrates how our daily life styles and choices, as well as our environments, may enable and allow creativity; whereas environments not conducive to creative flow may kill creative potential. Also explored are questions of ‘normality’, beauty and nuance in creativity, as well as creative relationships.

About the Author

Ruth Richards is a professor at Saybrook University, USA, a psychologist and psychiatrist. She has written numerous articles and books on everyday creativity, and was awarded the Rudolf Arnheim Award for Outstanding Lifetime Achievement (APA).