THE MIDNIGHT DISEASE The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain

Alice Weaver Flaherty

ISBN 10: 0618230653 / ISBN 13: 9780618230655

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 2004

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Fine in a Fine dust jacket. ; 5.75 X 1.25 X 8.25 inches; 307 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE MIDNIGHT DISEASE The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0618230653
• ISBN 13: 9780618230655
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition; First Printing.

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Synopsis

Neurologist Flaherty (Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School) explains the psychological and neuroscientific knowledge about the process of writing for a lay audience. She discusses the temporal lobe's role in "abnormal hypergraphia," an increased desire to write. She then explores psychological and neurological explanations for writer's block. The roles of the cerebral cortex in writing ability, the limbic system in the drive to communication, and the temporal lob in metaphorical thinking are examined in subsequent chapters. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About the Author

A. W. Flaherty is a neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who also teaches at Harvard Medical School. She is the author of The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer’s Block, and the Creative Brain. A. W. lives with her husband and twin daughters near Boston.