Everyday Creativity and the Healthy Mind Dynamic New Paths for Self
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EVERYDAY CREATIVIT Y AND THE HEALTHY MIND Dynamic New Paths for Self and Society
RUTH RICHARDS
Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture
Series Editors Vlad Petre Glăveanu Department of Psychology Webster University Geneva, Switzerland Brady Wagoner Communication and Psychology Aalborg University Aalborg, Denmark
Both creativity and culture are areas that have experienced a rapid growth in interest in recent years. Moreover, there is a growing interest today in understanding creativity as a socio-cultural phenomenon and culture as a transformative, dynamic process. Creativity has traditionally been considered an exceptional quality that only a few people (truly) possess, a cognitive or personality trait ‘residing’ inside the mind of the creative individual. Conversely, culture has often been seen as ‘outside’ the person and described as a set of ‘things’ such as norms, beliefs, values, objects, and so on. The current literature shows a trend towards a different understanding, which recognises the psycho-socio-cultural nature of creative expression and the creative quality of appropriating and participating in culture. Our new, interdisciplinary series Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture intends to advance our knowledge of both creativity and cultural studies from the forefront of theory and research within the emerging cultural psychology of creativity, and the intersection between psychology, anthropology, sociology, education, business, and cultural studies. Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture is accepting proposals for monographs, Palgrave Pivots and edited collections that bring together creativity and culture. The series has a broader focus than simply the c ultural approach to creativity, and is unified by a basic set of premises about creativity and cultural phenomena. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14640
Ruth Richards
Everyday Creativity and the Healthy Mind Dynamic New Paths for Self and Society
Ruth Richards Psychology Saybrook University Oakland, CA, USA
Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture ISBN 978-1-137-55765-0 ISBN 978-1-137-55766-7 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55766-7 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018946267 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication
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