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Intrigued by history's list of "troubled geniuses,"Albert Rothenberg investigates how two such opposite conditions-outstanding creativity and psychosis-could coexist in the same individual. Rothenberg concludes that high-level creativity transcends the usual modes of logical thought-and may even superficially resemble psychosis. But he also discovers that all types of creative thinking generally occur in a rational and conscious frame of mind, not in a mystically altered or transformed state. Far from being the source-or the price-of creativity, Rothenberg discovers, psychosis and other forms of mental illness are actually hindrances to creative work. Disturbed writers and absent-minded professors make great characters in fiction, but Rothenberg has uncovered an even better story-the virtually infinite creative potential of healthy human beings.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Psychology Cognition & cognitive psychology

• Full title: Creativity and Madness
• Subtitle: New Findings and Old Stereotypes
• Author: Albert Rothenberg
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208
• EAN: 9780801849770
• ISBN: 0801849772
• ID: 04708574
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Weight: 314 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 150 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. September 1994

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