Mind of the Artist - Personality and the Drive to Create

This book takes a deep, multi-angled, psychological approach to understanding the personality-based roots of creativity and the creative process. It draws on decades of scientific research focused on the central, mysterious trait of Openness, the true unifying glue behind everything creative.

List of contents

• Chapter 1: Traits, States, and Stories


• Chapter 2: Trait-Based Origins of Creativity


• Chapter 3: The Unifying Glue


• Chapter 4: Chaos Rainbows


• Chapter 5: Two Exemplary Creators: David Bowie and Frida Kahlo


• Chapter 6: The Unhappiness Muse


• Chapter 7: The Myth of the Mentally Ill Artist


• Chapter 8: Art and Suicide


• Epilogue

About the author

William Todd Schultz is an internationally recognized expert in psychobiographical research, personality psychology, and creativity, based at Pacific University. His work focuses on the origins of art and the intricacies of creative processes. Over the past two decades, he has authored and edited numerous articles, books, and chapters on several artists, including Oscar Wilde, David Bowie, Diane Arbus, Sylvia Plath, and others.

Summary

This book takes a deep, multi-angled, psychological approach to understanding the personality-based roots of creativity and the creative process. It draws on decades of scientific research focused on the central, mysterious trait of Openness, the true unifying glue behind everything creative.

Additional text

Books about creativity and 'unleashing your inner artist' are a dime a dozen. With The Mind of the Artist, we have something entirely different – a serious, nuanced, evidence-based look into the research behind creativity and what separates Picasso from the hobbyist down the street.

Product details

• Authors: William Todd Schultz, William Todd (Professor of Psychology Schultz, Schultz William Todd, William Todd Schutlz
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780197611098
• ISBN: 978-0-19-761109-8
• No. of pages: 210
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / Emotions, PSYCHOLOGY / Personality, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, ART / General, Psychology: emotions, The self, ego, identity, personality, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Art treatments & subjects, Social, group or collective psychology, The Arts: treatments and subjects