Overview
- What can we learn from creative people?
- How do we counter destructive forces within us and around us?
- Why is creativity an elementary fundament of life?
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Psychology (BRIEFSPSYCHOL)
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Table of contents (3 chapters)
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About this book
A creative lifestyle is not a luxury, but a necessary elixir of life. Only with creativity can we overcome despair, hatred and violence, in the world and in ourselves. Using selected examples of exceptionally creative people, Rainer M. Holm-Hadulla encourages us to unleash our own creative and social potential.
Readers become acquainted with Madonna and Amy Winehouse, John Lennon, Jim Morrison, and Mick Jagger. Before wandering through their lives and work in the interplay of constructive and destructive forces, they encounter the "Big Five of Creativity": talent, ability, motivation, resilience, favorable environments. The author has theoretically researched their interaction over decades, tested them in practice and drawn the conclusion: The creative transformation of human destructiveness is our chance to lead a fulfilled life in social responsibility.Reviews
- Vera Nünning, PhD; Literary Scholar
"This book offers a lasting impression of what it means to creatively
overcome crises, tensions and contradictions."
- Andreas Draguhn, MD; Neuroscientist
"Above all the study of different personalities of cultural history and
especially of artists of pop culture make this book a magnificent read
for young and old."
- Udo Dahmen, Musician and Artistic Director of the Pop-Academy Baden-Württemberg
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Rainer Matthias Holm-Hadulla, Prof. Dr. med., is a psychiatrist, psychotherapist and psychoanalyst. He teaches at the University of Heidelberg, at the Pop Academy in Mannheim and at various psychotherapeutic training institutes. He has already published numerous works on the subject of "creativity".
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Creative Transformation of Despair, Hate, and Violence
Book Subtitle: What we can learn from Madonna, Mick Jagger & Co
Authors: Rainer Matthias Holm-Hadulla
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Psychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27384-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-27383-4Published: 20 April 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-27384-1Published: 19 April 2023
Series ISSN: 2192-8363
Series E-ISSN: 2192-8371
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 69
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Psychology, general, Emotion, Cognitive Psychology, Arts, Music