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Book SynopsisAs human beings we all have creative potential, a quality essential to human development and a vital component to healthy and happy lives. Ruth Richards highlights the importance of process, circumventing our common preoccupation with the product, or creative outcome, of creativity.
Trade Review“This book on creativity and a healthy mind is a result of knowledge and practice in the science of both mind and body. ... The book is well presented. … Throughout the book, Richards offers insights and useful markers of benefits of creativity and a healthy mind.” (Gayle Byock, Creativity Research Journal, August 04, 2019)
Table of Contents1. Introduction.- Part I New Openings (Creative Product: 1st of Four P’s).- 2. Missing Worlds.- 3. Creative Palette.- 4. Change and Open Systems.- Part II Aha! Moment (Creative Process).- 5. Moments of Insight.- 6. Flavors of (Creative) Mind.- 7. Emergence of Life & Creativity.- Part III Living Creatively (Creative Person and Press).- 8. Popcorn: A Model.- 9. Creative Person.- 10. Creative Space.- Part IV Normal snd Abnormal (Not What Some Think).- 11. Deep Sea Diving.- 12. New Normal.- 13. Creative (Compensatory) Advantage.- Part V New Directions (Going Deeper).- 14. Empathy and Relational Creativity.- 15. Beauty, The Sublime, The Hidden.- 16. Fingerprints of Chaos, Nuance & Creativity.- Part VI Now What?.- 17. Higher Horizons: Three Views.- Afterword: 12 Points to Ponder—Then Smile!.
