Genius and the mind : studies of creativity and temperament /
Taking as examples the lives of creative individuals through history, this text considers the nature of creativity and genius from a psychological standpoint. Eleven chapters span the range of approaches used to understand the subject.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
1998.
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Table of Contents:
- Exceptional creativity and the psychological sciences / Andrew Steptoe
- Genetics of genius / David T. Lykken
- Creativity and genius : a systems perspective / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Historical developments of expert performance : public performance of music / Andreas C. Lehmann and K. Anders Ericsson
- Early lives : prodigies and non-prodigies / Michael J.A. Howe
- Mathematical giftedness and mathematical genius : a comparison of G.H. Hardy and Srinivasa Ramanujan / Robert S. Albert
- Mozart : resilience under stress / Andrew Steptoe
- Creative genius of William Shakespeare : historiometric analyses of his plays and sonnets / Dean Keith Simonton, Kathleen A. Taylor, and Vincent J. Cassandro
- Lord Byron : the apostle of affliction / Kay Redfield Jamison
- Creativity and madness : clues from modern psychiatric diagnosis / Gordon Claridge
- Artistic temperament in the Italian Renaissance : a study of Giorgio Vasari's Lives / Andrew Steptoe.