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- Offers an alternative understanding of the fundamentals of everyday creativity
- Highlights the importance of “process” in creativity over the result
- Discusses how we can enhance our relationships with life, beauty, future possibilities, and one another
- Winner of the Nautilus Silver Award - 2018 Creative Process category
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture (PASCC)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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NEW OPENINGS (Creative Product: 1st of Four P’s)
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AHA! MOMENT (Creative Process)
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LIVING CREATIVELY (Creative Person and Press)
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NORMAL AND ABNORMAL (Not What Some Think)
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NEW DIRECTIONS (Going Deeper)
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About this book
This book illustrates how our daily life styles and choices, as well as our environments, may enable and allow creativity; whereas environments not conducive to creative flow may kill creative potential. Also explored are questions of ‘normality’, beauty and nuance in creativity, as well as creative relationships.
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Psychology, Saybrook University, Oakland, CA, USA
Ruth Richards
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Everyday Creativity and the Healthy Mind
Book Subtitle: Dynamic New Paths for Self and Society
Authors: Ruth Richards
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55766-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-55765-0Published: 31 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-71840-5Published: 06 November 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-55766-7Published: 20 August 2018
Series ISSN: 2755-4503
Series E-ISSN: 2755-4511
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 390
Topics: Personality and Social Psychology, Positive Psychology, Applied Psychology, Creativity and Arts Education, Cognitive Psychology