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Everyday Creativity and the Healthy Mind

Dynamic New Paths for Self and Society

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  • © 2018

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Authors:
  1. Ruth Richards

    1. Psychology, Saybrook University, Oakland, CA, USA

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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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Ruth Richards
    Pages 1-10

  3. NEW OPENINGS (Creative Product: 1st of Four P’s)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Missing Worlds

      • Ruth Richards
      Pages 13-31

    3. Creative Palette

      • Ruth Richards
      Pages 33-49

    4. Change and Open Systems

      • Ruth Richards
      Pages 51-65

  4. AHA! MOMENT (Creative Process)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
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    2. Moments of Insight

      • Ruth Richards
      Pages 69-81

    3. Flavors of (Creative) Mind

      • Ruth Richards
      Pages 83-97

    4. Emergence of Life and Creativity

      • Ruth Richards
      Pages 99-117

  5. LIVING CREATIVELY (Creative Person and Press)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
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    2. “Popcorn”: A Model (Ongoing Creative Insights)

      • Ruth Richards
      Pages 121-134

    3. Creative Person

      • Ruth Richards
      Pages 135-152

    4. Creative Space

      • Ruth Richards
      Pages 153-170

  6. NORMAL AND ABNORMAL (Not What Some Think)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171
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    2. Deep Sea Diving

      • Ruth Richards
      Pages 173-192

    3. A New Normal

      • Ruth Richards
      Pages 193-212

    4. Creative (Compensatory) Advantage

      • Ruth Richards
      Pages 213-240

  7. NEW DIRECTIONS (Going Deeper)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 241-241
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    2. Empathy and Relational Creativity

      • Ruth Richards
      Pages 243-265
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About this book

As human beings we all have creative potential, a quality essential to human development and a vital component to healthy and happy lives. However this may often remain stifled by the choices we make, or ways in which we choose to live in our daily lives. Framed by the “Four Ps of Creativity” – product, person, process, press – this book offers an alternative understanding of the fundamentals of ordinary creativity. Ruth Richards highlights the importance of “process”, circumventing our common preoccupation with the product, or creative outcome, of creativity. By focusing instead on the creator and the creative process, she demonstrates how we may enhance our relationships with life, beauty, future possibilities, and one another. 


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.


Reviews

“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)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Psychology, Saybrook University, Oakland, CA, USA

    Ruth Richards

About the author

Ruth Richards is a professor at Saybrook University, USA, a psychologist and psychiatrist. She has written numerous articles and books on everyday creativity, and was awarded the Rudolf Arnheim Award for Outstanding Lifetime Achievement (APA).

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