Creativity and Affect (Paperback)

Contributors Preface SPECIFIC AFFECTIVE STATES Affective Components of Scientific Creativity Creativity and Bipolar Mood Swings: Why the Association? Bipolar Disorder and Creativity Giddiness and Horror in the Creative Process Creativity and its DisCONTENTS INTRINSIC MOTIVATION Situational Affect: Proactive and Reactive Creativity Generative Sources of Creative Functioning Making It or Finding It PSYCHOLOGICAL AND BIOLOGICAL FEATURES Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience in Relationship to Dreams and Creativity Affect, Hemispheric Specialization, and Creativity Creativity, Intentionality, and Alexithymia: A Graphological Analysis of Split-Brained Patients and Normal Controls Creativity of Religious Symbols GENERAL OVERVIEW Conclusions Concerning Creativity and Affect Author Index Subject Index.