Ruth Richards - Everyday Creativity and the Healthy Mind: Dynamic New Paths for Self and Society

Ruth Richards

Everyday Creativity and the Healthy Mind Dynamic New Paths for Self and Society

Praise for Everyday Creativity and the Healthy Mind .

The human community desperately needs new ways of thinking about the individual and the community, the common good, the creative good, our place in the world. Our health and wellbeing depend on the kind of innovative thinking found in abundance in this book. Dr. Ruth Richards poses powerful questions and provides concrete pointers as well as expansive and profound visions of what could be. I hope the reader will feel empowered and excited by the ideas and stories in this wonderful and brilliant book.

Judith V. Jordan, Director,Jean Baker Miller Institute, Wellesley College and Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, USA

Dr. Ruth Richardss years of study of everyday creativity shine through in this new volume. She synthesizes a multitude of theories and resources, making everyday creativity truly accessible to everyonebringing new hope to a world very much in need of healing.

Susan Borkin, psychotherapist and author of The Healing Power of Writing and When Your Heart Speaks, Take Good Notes

A wonderful book. We are taken on a delightful exploration into the creativity that each of us, knowingly or unknowingly, harbors in our everyday lives. It is rife with examples of attitudes, actions, and situations that enrich each of our days with expressions of the joy of living.

Allan Combs, Doshi Professor of Consciousness Studies, California Institute of Integral Studies, USA. Authored books include The Radiance of Being (Best Book Award, Scientific and Medical Network of the UK)

This is not the usual creativity book. Rather than viewing creativity as something you do, this book makes it clear that a key part of creativity is about who you are. What a refreshing take on creativity and its linkages to well-being and a life well lived.

Scott Barry Kaufman, author and editor of books including Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind

Everyday Creativity and the Healthy Mind is Ruth Richardss latest and hugely compelling exploration of the relationship between creativity and health. Seeking to bring a more qualitative feel for the subject, this big book captures the attention from the get-go. At times confessional, intimate, joyous, funny, playful, challenging, direct, provocative, deep, and wide-ranging, it is always engaging, run-through with erudition, and just pops with ideas on every page.

Nick Wilson, Reader in Creativity, Arts & Cultural Management, Kings College London, UK. Co-Editor (with Lee Martin) , Palgrave Handbook of Creativity at Work

Enhancing human potential is a theme that has spawned numerous books and essays over the past several decades, but Ruth Richards has given it an original spin. In this provocative book, she digs deep and soars high to suggest ways that individuals can transform themselves and their social environment. Everyday Creativity and the Healthy Mind is bound to change the lives of many of its readers and, if its suggestions are followed, the direction of their world as well.

Stanley Krippner, Alan Watts Professor of Psychology, Saybrook University, USA. Recipient of the 2002 American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology

This book helps us see creativity as a way of lifethat in fact we