{"product_id":"creativity-and-madness-albert-rothenberg-9780801849770","title":"Creativity and Madness: New Findings and Old Stereotypes","description":"\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFar 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Albert Rothenberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801849772\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801849770\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.04h x 5.83w x 0.52d","brand":"Albert Rothenberg","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926135406847,"sku":"9780801849770","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_73b81bdc-0aa6-4123-8224-4b68ae4a2f7b.jpg?v=1681081402","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/creativity-and-madness-albert-rothenberg-9780801849770","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}