Everyday Creativity and New Views of Human Nature

by Richards, Ruth

• ISBN13: 9780979212574
• ISBN10: 097921257X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-06-01
• Publisher: AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

Summary

In this provocative collection of essays, eminent thinkers and writers offer their thoughts on how embracing creativity--tapping into the originality of everyday life--can lead to improved physical and mental health as well as new ways of thinking and experiencing the world.

Author Biography

Ruth Richards, MD, PhD, is a board certified psychiatrist and educational psychologist. She is a professor of psychology at Saybrook Graduate School in San Francisco, California; a research affiliate at McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts (psychiatric affiliate of Massachusetts General Hospital); and a lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. For many years, Dr. Richards has studied everyday creativity in clinical and educational settings and has published on creativity and social action as well as spiritual development. She is the principal author of The Lifetime Creativity Scales, which broke new ground as a broad-based assessment of real-life everyday creativity in a general population. With Mark A. Runco, Dr. Richards coedited Eminent Creativity, Everyday Creativity, and Health. She served on the executive advisory board for the Encyclopedia of Creativity and is also on the editorial boards of three journals: The Creativity Research Journal; The Journal of Humanistic Psychology; and Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, the journal for APA Division 10 (Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts), where she is also an at-large member of the executive committee. Personally, Dr. Richards draws, writes, plays three instruments badly, and learns even more about creativity from her teenage daughter.
 

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 5
Creativity and Our Individual Lives	p. 23
Everyday Creativity: Our Hidden Potential	p. 25
Living Well Creatively: What's Chaos Got to Do With It?	p. 55
Artist and Audience: Everyday Creativity and Visual Art	p. 75
To Understand Is to Create: An Epistemological Perspective on Human Nature and Personal Creativity	p. 91
Audience Flow: Creativity in Television Watching With Applications to Teletherapy	p. 109
Structures of Consciousness and Creativity: Opening the Doors of Perception	p. 131
Creativity and Society	p. 151
Telling the New Story: Darwin, Evolution, and Creativity Versus Conformity in Science	p. 153
Standing Up for Humanity: Upright Body, Creative Instability, and Spiritual Balance	p. 175
Creativity in the Everyday: Culture, Self, and Emotions	p. 195
A "Knowledge Ecology" View of Creativity: How Integral Science Recasts Collective Creativity as a Basis of Large-Scale Learning	p. 221
Cyborgs, Cyberspace, Cybersexuality: The Evolution of Everyday Creativity	p. 241
Our Great Creative Challenge: Rethinking Human Nature-and Recreating Society	p. 261
Integration and Conclusions	p. 287
Twelve Potential Benefits of Living More Creatively	p. 289
Author Index	p. 321
Subject Index	p. 331
About the Editor	p. 349
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