Preface

Introduction

Part I. Eminent Creators: Psychological Problems and Creativity

Part I Introduction

1. Creativity and Mental Illness: Prevalence Rates in Writers and Their First-Degree Relatives

Nancy C. Andreasen

2. Mood Disorders and Patterns of Creativity in British Writers and Artists

Kay Redfield Jamison

3. Creative Achievement and Psychopathology: Comparison Among Professions

Arnold M. Ludwig

4. Creativity, Mental Health, and Alcoholism

Albert Rothenberg

Part II. Everyday Creators: Psychological Problems and Creativity

Part II Introduction

5. Creativity, Preference for Complexity, and Physical and Mental Illness

Russell Eisenman

6. Creativity and Personality: Word Association, Origence, and Psychoticism

Hans J. Eysenck

7. Creativity in Manic-Depressives, Cyclothymes, Their Normal Relatives, and Control Subjects

Ruth Richards

Dennis K. Kinney

Inge Lunde

Maria Benet

Ann P.C. Merzel

8. Mood Swings and Creativity

Ruth Richards

Dennis K. Kinney

9. Schizotypal and Hypomanic Traits, Creativity, and Psychological Health

David Schuldberg

Part III. Psychological Health and Creativity

Part III Introduction

Adaptation and Resilient Coping:

10. Disorders of the Pathways Involved in the Creative Process

Frederic Flach

11. The Healing Power of Art: The Case of James Ensor

John E. Gedo

12. The Healing Power of Music: Some Observations on the Semiotic Function of Transitional Objects in Musical Communication

Peter Ostwald

Enhanced Well-Being and Self-Actualization:

13. Creativity and Mental Health in Everyday Life

Arthur J. Cropley

14. Growth from Deficiency Creativity to Being Creativity

Celeste Rhodes

15. Creativity and Self-Actualization

Mark A. Runco

Peter Ebersole

Wayne Mraz

Neurological and Immunological Factors:

16. Dual Brain, Creativity, and Health

Klaus D. Hoppe

Neville L. Kyle

17. Disclosure of Traumas and Immune Function: Health Implications for Psychotherapy

James W. Pennebaker

Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser

Ronald Glaser

Lifespan Issues:

18. The Creative Thinking and Ego Functioning of Children

Stephanie Z. Dudek

Rene Verreault

19. Family Adaptability, Cohesion, and Creativity

Kathleen Green Gardner

James D. Moran III

Creativity in Old Age

Gudmund J.W. Smith

Gunilla van der Meer

Part IV. Societal Health and Creativity

Part IV Introduction

Feature Article:

21. Political Pathology and Societal Creativity

Dean Keith Simonton

Commentaries:

22. Societal Creativity: Problems with Pathology

Sharon Bailin

23. Four Frames for the Study of Creativity

David Henry Feldman

24. The Origin of Creative Achievement: Spontaneity, Responsibility, and Individuals

Carl R. Hausman

25. Innovation, Illegitimacy, and Individualism

Colin Martindale

26. The Accidental Economist

Daniel L. Rubenson

27. Psychological Mediators of the Inverse Pathology-Creativity Effect

Winifred E. Stariha

Herbert J. Walberg

28. Anabolic and Catabolic Factors in the Creative Process

Morris I. Stein

Rejoinder:

29. Monsieur Appends Reflections

Dean Keith Simonton

Part V. Integrating Personal Patterns and Societal Possibilities

Part V Introduction

30. The Clash of Social Philosophies and Personalities in the Nuclear Arms Control Debate: A Healthful Dialectic?

Frank Barron

Pamela Bradley

31. Creative Altruism, Cooperation, and World Peace

Howard E. Gruber

Part VI. Evolution of Creativity, Information, and Ourselves

Part VI Introduction

32. Conclusions: When Illness Yields Creativity

Ruth Richards

Author Index

Subject Index