Creative Ability list 10

The Art of Becoming An Artist

by Darylynn Starr Rank
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017

Being an artist can be the most enchanting life imaginable – and the most tormenting. Finding your way to your own creative universe is an extraordinary and infinitely surprising journey. Still, every artist falters at some point. Call it what you will: blocks, obstacles, hitting the wall, tossing...

Art Is a Spiritual Path

Engaging the Sacred through the Practice of Art and Writing

by Pat B. Allen
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2005

Art is a spiritual path—not a religion, but a practice that helps us knit together the ideals and convictions that guide our lives. Creating art can be prayer, ritual, and remembrance of the Divine. And the sharing of this creativity with others in small groups can serve as sanctuary, asylum, ashram,...

Powers of Two

How Relationships Drive Creativity

by Joshua Wolf Shenk
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014

The power of collaboration, from Lennon and McCartney to Wozniak and Jobs: “An inspiring book that also happens to be a great read” (Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive). Throughout history, partners have buoyed each other to better work—though often one member is little known to the general...

Humor 101

by Mitch Earleywine, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010

"Humor is complex, and the author, Mitch Earleywine, does an exceptional job of covering the big bases of humor from a research perspective in a small space with a readable content. When I first picked up this book and began reading it, I was looking for depth. What I found was an overview and at...

Think and Focus Like a Star: Boost Yourself and Discover How to Excel, Win and Be Famous

by Robin Sacredfire
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016

In Think and Focus Like a Star, the author shares his insights and thoughts related to success and the ability to achieve it every single time, whether it’s in painting, drawing, playing music, writing books, or most important, believing that you have the right to win and be famous when you’re...

The Logic of Human Mind, Self-Awareness & Way We Think

by John Dewey
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2019

This carefully crafted ebook collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Psychology and Social Practice Psychological Doctrine and Philosophical Teaching Psychology as Philosophic Method The New Psychology How We Think The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology...

Art From Intuition

Overcoming your Fears and Obstacles to Making Art

by Dean Nimmer
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014

Practical self-help for artists who want to free their creativity. Art from Intuition offers artists everywhere a unique system for freeing their own creative intuition, the sixth sense that directs an artist’s drive and work. By letting go of the self-criticism, doubt, and insecurity that discourage...

Creativity 101, Second Edition

by James C. Kaufman, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016

What is creativity? How does it work? How does it flourish in individuals and organizations? Now in its second edition, this bestselling introductory text--written by one of the world’s leading experts on the psychology of creativity--is completely updated and expanded to reflect the tremendous...

The Psychology of Genius

Genius and Insanity

by William Hirsch, Sully James
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018

This book deals with the Psychology of Genius and the relation between Genius and Insanity. "The psychological analysis of famous poets will show that the intellectual function is no whit less important a factor of poetic genius than fancy itself, although the latter is the one immediately...

Drawing Autism

by Jill Mullin
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014

This “jaw-droppingly beautiful book” explores the work and creative process of artists diagnosed with ASD, with a foreword by Temple Grandin (Library Journal). In this volume, behavior analyst and educator Jill Mullin has assembled a staggering array of work from established artists with autism...

The Soul of Art

Analysis and Creation

by Christian Gaillard
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017

The beginnings of art are lost in the dim reaches of prehistory, eons before humans began recording and codifying their experiences in writing. And yet philosophers, artists, and historians have for centuries noted the intimate and perhaps inseparable relationship between human consciousness and the...

Autism and Creativity

Is There a Link between Autism in Men and Exceptional Ability?

by Michael Fitzgerald
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004

Autism and Creativity is a stimulating study of male creativity and autism, arguing that a major genetic endowment is a prerequisite of genius, and that cultural and environmental factors are less significant than has often been claimed. Chapters on the diagnosis and psychology of autism set the scene...

Using Poetry to Promote Talking and Healing

by Pooky Knightsmith
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016

Poetry can prove a great way into difficult conversations in therapeutic, classroom or family settings. This book is a clear and practical guide to the use of poetry as a therapeutic tool to help explore issues surrounding mental health and emotional wellbeing. The first part of the book provides...

LSD: Doorway to the Numinous

The Groundbreaking Psychedelic Research into Realms of the Human Unconscious

by Stanislav Grof, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2009

A pioneering book that explores the unknown landscape of human consciousness induced by LSD and other psychedelics • Shows the relationship between shamanism, near death experiences, and other mystical and altered states with those induced by psychedelics • Lays the conceptual foundation...