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Everyday creativity and the healthy mind : dynamic new paths for self and society

Author

Richards, Ruth, author.

Title

Everyday creativity and the healthy mind : dynamic new paths for self and society / Ruth Richards.

Format

E-Book

Published

London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Description

1 online resource.

URL

Access for [All Campuses] - (Available on campus and off campus with authorized logon)

Uniform series

Palgrave studies in creativity and culture.

Notes

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Contents

Intro; Dedication; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; About the Author; 1: Introduction; We Turn the Camera Around; Creating What?: Most Anything!; Longstanding Study of Creativity-and Next Steps; Precursor Edited Book-and This Volume; The Chapters; Part I: NEW OPENINGS  (Creative Product: 1st of Four P's); 2: Missing Worlds; The Missing World; Everyday Creativity; Seeing as Creative: Or Not; Opening Up Options; Creative Choices; Originality and Meaningfulness; Lifetime Creativity Scales; Creativity as Part of Who We Are

Contents note

Four Ps of Creativity: Perspectives on Product, Process, Person, PressHuman Limitations or "Blinders" on Lived Experience; Alterations of Consciousness; Selective Attention: When Parts of a Whole Go Invisible; Opening Things Up with Awareness and Mindfulness; Mindfulness and Presence; Meta-awareness, and Birth of Creativity; Survival Itself; Others Reflect on Their Experiences; 3: Creative Palette; What Creative Palette?; Highlighting How Healthy This Can Be; Mind-Body Boost; Comparing Creative Palettes; Artist's Palette; Creative Palette (of Life); Re-creating and Healing Self

Ongoing Development-Living by Symbols, by StoryGroup Creating and Children's Play; In the Forest: Rich Associations, Complex Webworks of Thought; Who Is Running This Show?; Preparing-I; Preparing-II: Keeping the Psychic Doors Open; Keeping One's Balance Throughout; How Integrated? Do We Use This Material? Or Does It Use Us?; Jung's Three Issues; Playing with Dynamic Mind; More Creative Latitude than We Knew?; Quick Examples; Life in Motion, Mind in Motion; 4: Change and Open Systems; Open Systems, Interconnection, and Us; Science of Change and Surprise; Creative Insight; Who Are We?

Changes 'R UsSelf as Connected Process-in-Motion (or Self-in-World); We Belong to a Larger Emerging Picture; From Photo to YouTube to 3D Spectacular Systems; Context Can Be Everything; Interconnections: Pervasive and Subtle; Two Examples; Conscious Decision to Expand Awareness-One Can Try It; Wait 'Til Tomorrow?; Part II: AHA! MOMENT (Creative Process); 5: Moments of Insight; Aha! An Avalanche of Mind; Rolling Waves of Ahas!; Big Ahas!; Meanwhile the Little Ahas! Abound; Everyday Creativity; Top of the Mental Mountain; "Try It Now": Asking Some Questions; Meeting New Paradigms

Aromas and AttractorsCaveat: Other Ways of Knowing; Nonlinear World; Paradigm Shift; 6: Flavors of (Creative) Mind; Flavors of Mind; Mind State and Creativity; A Walk with the Muse; Self-Organizing and Creative States; Dream Related States; Hypnagogic State; Try This; What Is the Brain Doing?; Subjective Side of It; "Take Home Message"; Alpha Flash! How Cool!; Our Own Experience; Question of Balance-Systems 1 and 2, Including the Default Network; Balancing Act of Mind; Openness to Experience (OE); 7: Emergence of Life and Creativity; Morowitz Explored 28 Examples and 14 Billion Years!

Subject headings

Creative ability. Mental health. Arts--Therapeutic use.

ISBN

9781137557667 (electronic bk.) 1137557664 (electronic bk.) 9781137557650 1137557656 1137557664