{"product_id":"creativity-and-madness-new-findings-and-old-stereotypes-9780801849770","title":"Creativity and Madness: New Findings and Old Stereotypes","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Albert Rothenberg\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Creative Ability\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntrigued 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46893379911831,"sku":"9780801849770","price":3079.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780801849770.webp?v=1770315825","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/creativity-and-madness-new-findings-and-old-stereotypes-9780801849770","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}