Preface
About the Contributors
Introduction
EMINENT CREATORS: PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS AND CREATIVITY
Creativity and Mental Illness: Prevalence Rates in Writers and Their First-Degree Relatives
Mood Disorders and Patterns of Creativity in British Writers and Artists
Creative Achievement and Psychopathology: Comparison Among Professions
Creativity, Mental Health, and Alcoholism
EVERYDAY CREATORS: PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS AND CREATIVITY
Creativity, Preference for Complexity, and Physical and Mental Illness
Creativity in Manic-Depressives, CyHardcoverymes, Their Normal Relatives, and Control Subjects
Mood Swings and Creativity
Schizotypal and Hypomanic Traits
Creativity, and Psychological Health
PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH AND CREATIVITY
Adaption and Resilient Coping: Disorders of the Pathways Involved in the Creative Process
The Healing Power of Art: The Case of James Ensor
The Healing Power of Music: Some Observations on the Semiotic Function of Transitional Objects in Musical Communication
Enhanced Well-Being and Self-Actualization: Creativity and Mental Health in Everyday Life
Growth From Deficiency Creativity to Being Creativity
Creativity and Self-Actualization
Neurological and Immunological Factors: Dual Brain, Creativity, and Health
Disclosure of Traumas and Immune Function: Health Implications for Psychotherapy
Lifespan Issues: The Creative Thinking and Ego Functioning of Children
Family Adaptability, Cohesion, and Creativity. Creativity in Old Age
SOCIETAL HEALTH AND CREATIVITY
Feature Article: Political Pathology and Societal Creativity
Commentaries: Societal Creativity: Problems with Pathology
Four Frames for the Study of Creativity
The Origin of Creative Achievement: Spontaneity, Responsibility, and Individuals
Innovation, Illegitimacy, and Individualism
The Accidental Economist
Psychological Mediators of the Inverse Pathology-Creativity Effect
Anabolic and Catabolic Factors in the Creative Process
Rejoinder: Monsieur Appends Reflections
INTEGRATING PERSONAL PATTERNS AND SOCIETAL POSSIBILITIES
The Clash of Sociotal Philosophies and Personalities in the Nuclear Arms Control Debate: A Healthful Dialectic?
Creative Altruism, Cooperation, and World Peace
EVOLUTION OF CREATIVITY, INFORMATION, AND OURSELVES
Conclusions: When Illness Yields Creativity
Author Index
Subject Index
