The Creativity Question by Albert Rothenberg

The Creativity Question by Albert Rothenberg

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.
The organization of The Creativity Question is unique: it illustrates the various approaches and basic assumptions underlying studies of creativity throughout the course of history up to the present time. The main body of selections appears under the categories of descriptions, attempts at explanation, and alternate approaches. As specific orientations to creativity can be traced to particular initiating thinkers and investigators, there is a special chapter on seminal accounts containing selections from the works of Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Galton, and Freud. Another chapter includes recent illustrations of special types of exploratory trends: creativity of women, brain research, synectics, extrasensory perception, behaviorism, and creativity computer programming. This organization highlights the tension between strictly scientific accounts and alternative approaches offering new ways of understanding. The editors have provided for the books as a whole and for each chapter explanation and discussion of the basic issues raised by the various approaches to creativity.

Albert Rothenberg M.D. is Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is the Principal Investigator of the research project Studies in the Creative Process and has written numerous articles and books on his investigations of creativity in art, literature, psychotherapy, and science. He is also the author of a previous novel, Living Color.He lives both in France and in the U.S.A. with his wife, Julia, artist and former Professor of Education.

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ISBN 13	9780822303534
ISBN 10	0822303531
Titel	The Creativity Question
Autor	Albert Rothenberg
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Duke University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	1976-06-01
Seitenanzahl	366
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