Author: Nancy C. Andreasen
Michelangelo was raised in a rustic village by a family of modest means. Shakespeare's father was a middle-class businessman.
Abraham Lincoln came from a family of itinerant farmers. Yet all these men broke free from their limited circumstances and achieved brilliant careers as creative artists and leaders. How such extraordinary creativity develops in the
human brain is the subject of renowned psychiatrist Nancy Andreasen's The Creating Brain.Andreasen explains here how the brain produces creative breakthroughs in art, literature, and science, revealing that creativity is not the same thing as intelligence. She scrutinizes the complex factors involved in the development of creativity…
In writing this book Dr. Andreasen had to consider her audience. Thisbook was written for a general audience, not the academic or medical community.Therefore it must appeal to that end both in… +++++QUESTION: What do Neil
Simon (playwright), Mozart (music composer), and Friedrich Kekule (organic chemist) have in common?ANSWER: Each was considered to be a creative genius.This slim book by Dr.
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