Creativity and the Creative Process

Edmund Dulac

Reading List for the
Psychology of Creativity Seminar

presented by

The Center for Story and Symbol

Selected list - from the reading list prepared for the Psychology of Creativity seminar. You can click on the title to order a new copy of most books, or follow the used copies link to see if used copies of the title are available.

Clinical Applications

Bruner, Jerome (1986) Actual Minds, Possible Worlds, Cambridge, MA: Harvard
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Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly (1997) Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life. New York: HarperCollins
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Ealy, C. Diane (1995) The Woman’s Book of Creativity, New York: Words Publishing
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Kubie, Lawrence S. (1958) Neurotic Distortion of the Creative Process, New York: Noonday Press
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Larsen, Stephen (1990) The Mythic Imagination: The Quest for Meaning through Personal Mythology. Manchester, VT: Inner Traditions International
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Leonard, Linda S. (2000) The Call to Create: Celebrating Acts of Imagination. New York: Harmony Books
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Lockhart, Russell A. (1983) Words as Eggs: Psyche in Language and Clinic. Putnam, CT: Spring Publications
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Maisel, Eric (1992) A Life in the Arts, New York: Tarcher/Putnam Check for used copies

Maslow, Abraham H. (1983) The Farther Reaches of Human Nature, New York: Penguin
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May, Rollo (1975) The Courage to Create, New York: W.W. Norton
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Moustakas, Clark (1967) Creativity and Conformity, Princeton: D. Van Nostrand
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Creativity -- Writing

Cameron, Julia (1998) The Right to Write, New York: Tarcher/Putnam
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DeSalvo, Louise (1999) Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives. New York: HarperSanFrancisco
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Dillard, Anne (1989) The Writing Life, New York: HarperPerennial
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DiTiberio, John K. and Jensen, George H. (1995) Writing & Personality: Finding Your Voice, Your Style, Your Way. Palo Alto, CA: Davies-Black
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Fox, John (1995) Finding What You Didn’t Lose, New York: Tarcher/Putnam
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Goldberg, Natalie (1986) Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, Boston: Shambhala
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Goldberg, Natalie (1990) Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life, New York: Bantam
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Keen, Sam and Valley-Fox, Anne (1973) Your Mythic Journey: Finding Meaning in Your Life through Writing and Storytelling. New York: Tarcher/Putnam
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Lamott, Anne (1994) Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, New York: Doubleday
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Metzger, Deena (1992) Writing for Your Life: A Guide and Companion to the Inner Worlds. New York: HarperSanFrancisco
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Vogler, Christopher (1998) The Writer’s Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers, Studio City, CA: Michael Wiese Productions
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Creativity -- Visual Arts

Bachelard, Gaston (1958) The Poetics of Space, Boston: Beacon
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Berger, John (1972) Ways of Seeing, New York: Penguin
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Broughton, James (1977) Seeing The Light, San Francisco: City Lights
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Cameron, Julia (1992) The Artist’s Way - A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity, N.Y.: Putnam
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Edwards, Betty (1993) Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, New York: HarperCollins
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Creativity -- Organizational Psychology Applications

De Bono, Edward (1970) Lateral Thinking - Creativity Step by Step, New York: Perennial
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De Bono, Edward (1992) Serious Creativity, New York: Harper Business
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De Bono, Edward (1994) Parallel Thinking, New York: Penguin
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Osborn, Alex F. (1957) Applied Imagination, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons
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Osborn, Alex F. (1991) Your Creative Power, Schaumburg, IL: Motorola University Press
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Whyte, David (1994) The Heart Aroused, New York: Doubleday
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Workshop Information

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