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This innovative and unique book explores what happens in the mind during a state of creative trance. Drawing on diverse examples from many cultures and times, artist and psychologist Tobi Zausner shows that the creative trance is an altered state of consciousness inherent in everyone.
List of contents
Introduction: the pervasive state of trance; 1. The multifaceted creative trance; 2. Consciousness and creativty theory in a creative trance; 3. Unconscious origins of the creative trance; 4. Empathy and dissociation in the creative trance; 5. Evolution, altered states, and the creative trance; 6. The creative trance and the brain; 7. Dynamics of the creative trance; 8. Dyslexia, attention deficit disorder, and the creative trance; 9. Illness and transformation in the creative trance; 10. Different abilities and the creative trance; 11. Dementia and the creative trance; 12. Altered states of a lifesaving creative trance.
About the author
Tobi Zausner is a research psychologist, clinician, and award-winning visual artist. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, a prolific presenter and writer, author of When Walls Become Doorways: Creativity and the Transforming Illness (2016), and has taught at the C. G. Jung Foundation and Saybrook University.
Summary
This innovative and unique book explores what happens in the mind during a state of creative trance. Drawing on diverse examples from many cultures and times, artist and psychologist Tobi Zausner shows that the creative trance is an altered state of consciousness inherent in everyone.
Foreword
An investigation of how the creative trance works across multiple domains in the arts, sciences, sports, and self-transformation.
