Eminent Creativity, Everyday Creativity, and Health brings together key past and present cutting-edge papers in the hot area of creativity and mental health. Included are major papers that have attracted interest in the international press (including the New York Ties, Japan's Asahi Weekly, and New Scientist in England). Other emphases include creativity and unhappy childhoods, coping with adversity, and immune function and health. Nowhere else is all this material available in one place, together with helpful integration and synthesis. For anyone interested in creativity and health, this book offers a one-stop shopping approach.

Preface
About the Contributors
Introduction
EMINENT CREATORS: PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS AND CREATIVITY
Creativity and Mental Illness: Prevalence Rates in Writers and Their First-Degree Relatives
Mood Disorders and Patterns of Creativity in British Writers and Artists
Creative Achievement and Psychopathology: Comparison Among Professions
Creativity, Mental Health, and Alcoholism
EVERYDAY CREATORS: PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS AND CREATIVITY
Creativity, Preference for Complexity, and Physical and Mental Illness
Creativity in Manic-Depressives, CyHardcoverymes, Their Normal Relatives, and Control Subjects
Mood Swings and Creativity
Schizotypal and Hypomanic Traits
Creativity, and Psychological Health
PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH AND CREATIVITY
Adaption and Resilient Coping: Disorders of the Pathways Involved in the Creative Process
The Healing Power of Art: The Case of James Ensor
The Healing Power of Music: Some Observations on the Semiotic Function of Transitional Objects in Musical Communication
Enhanced Well-Being and Self-Actualization: Creativity and Mental Health in Everyday Life
Growth From Deficiency Creativity to Being Creativity
Creativity and Self-Actualization
Neurological and Immunological Factors: Dual Brain, Creativity, and Health
Disclosure of Traumas and Immune Function: Health Implications for Psychotherapy
Lifespan Issues: The Creative Thinking and Ego Functioning of Children
Family Adaptability, Cohesion, and Creativity. Creativity in Old Age
SOCIETAL HEALTH AND CREATIVITY
Feature Article: Political Pathology and Societal Creativity
Commentaries: Societal Creativity: Problems with Pathology
Four Frames for the Study of Creativity
The Origin of Creative Achievement: Spontaneity, Responsibility, and Individuals
Innovation, Illegitimacy, and Individualism
The Accidental Economist
Psychological Mediators of the Inverse Pathology-Creativity Effect
Anabolic and Catabolic Factors in the Creative Process
Rejoinder: Monsieur Appends Reflections
INTEGRATING PERSONAL PATTERNS AND SOCIETAL POSSIBILITIES
The Clash of Sociotal Philosophies and Personalities in the Nuclear Arms Control Debate: A Healthful Dialectic?
Creative Altruism, Cooperation, and World Peace
EVOLUTION OF CREATIVITY, INFORMATION, AND OURSELVES
Conclusions: When Illness Yields Creativity
Author Index
Subject Index