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LSD and creativity.

The effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) on creativity were examined in a unique experiment in the late 1950's. In this project, artists were asked to draw and paint a Kachina doll both prior to and one hour after the ingestion of LSD. Evaluations of these artistic productions were analyzed by a professor of art history in order to investigate the impact of LSD on artistic creativity. Certain representative changes were found in the artists' predominant style. The most significant change was noted in those artists whose styles were intrinsically representational or abstract to more expressionistic or nonobjective. Other changes noted included the following: relative size expansion; involution; movement; alteration of figure/ground and boundaries; greater intensity of color and light; oversimplification; symbolic and abstract depiction of objects; and fragmentation, disorganization, and distortion. Many artists judged their LSD productions to be more interesting and aesthetically superior to their usual mode of expression. The above-mentioned changes contributed to the artists' convictions that they were fashioning new meanings to an emergent world.

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PubMed2005

Creative reminiscence as an early intervention for depression: results of a pilot project.

Reminiscence may help in resolving conflicts from the past and making up the balance of one's life. Life-review may be further enhanced by the creative expression of memories in stories, poems or drawings. In this way people are encouraged to create and discover metaphors, images and stories that symbolically represent the subjective and inner meaning of their lives. In this article, a new intervention, which combines reminiscence and creative expression aimed at early treatment of depression, is described. A pilot project showed that the intervention Searching for the meaning in life may generate small-sized effects in reducing depression. Additionally, it appears to generate effects of medium size in enhancing mastery. Several possible ways to improve the effectiveness of the intervention are described.

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PubMed1990

Creativity in the later years: optimistic prospects for achievement.

Despite the apparent decline in productivity in the final years of life, seven considerations suggest a far more favorable outlook: the actual magnitude of the age decrement; the role of extrinsic influences; the contingency on career age; the impact of individual differences in creative potential; the interdisciplinary variation in the age curves; the virtual absence of an age decrement on a contribution-for-contribution basis; and the resurgence of creativity in the form of the swan-song phenomenon.

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PubMed1994

Humor adds the creative touch to CQI teams.

The health care industry is looking to continuous quality improvement as a process to both improve patient care and promote cost effectiveness. Interdisciplinary teams are learning to work together and to use data-driven problem solving. Humor adds a creative and welcome touch to the process that makes it easier and more fun to work in teams. The team leader or facilitator who uses humor along the journey sanctions the risk-taking behavior that accompanies creative solutions to tough problems.

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PubMed1998

Creative educational strategies for health promotion.

The dramatic changes in health care delivery present challenges to nurses in practice and to the educators who must prepare professional nurses for the uncertain world of tomorrow's managed care environment. In light of the increased emphasis on health promotion occurring with current changes in health care, the article proposes numerous creative strategies that nurse educators can use to prepare students to fulfill their health promotion responsibilities effectively. The concepts of health promotion and creativity are examined, and teaching approaches needed to facilitate community-based, health promotion-focused activities are presented. Specific strategies, particularly clinical teaching/learning opportunities, are suggested.

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Promoting creativity: the use of student projects.

Can creativity be developed in our nursing students? The authors describe their experience in using creativity projects in a nursing course and the impact the experience had on students and patient care.

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PubMed1994

Creative problem-solving techniques: relevance to doctors in management?

Recent NHS reforms have had a profound impact on the role of clinicians in the field of management. Traditionally this has been a role eschewed by clinicians, but the evolution of the clinical directorate model has now encouraged senior members of the medical profession to address more positively managerial and management issues. If clinicians are to embrace enthusiastically the management role, it is clear that their awareness of the range of techniques available to them is raised to its maximum potential. In this respect, explores the relevance of some more radical creative problem-solving techniques within a practical environment. The concentration is on two specific techniques which were put to trial in real working situations. However, in addition to the techniques addressed, there are a range of alternative problem-solving techniques which may be more appropriate. Having piloted the two creative problem-solving techniques described, the practical conclusions were that their application had developed better team working and spirit, enhanced the quality of patient care delivered by the team and improved productivity and outcomes.

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PubMed1998

Explaining premature mortality across fields of creative endeavor.

It has been established that eminent creative writers tend to die younger than their counterparts in other creative-achievement domains. The present study replicates these findings using a data set of 2102 eminent historical subjects from seven different disciplines, and reviews three extant explanations for this phenomenon. Each explanation was tested using an indicator of versatility. None of the life-span hypotheses extended from each explanation to the interaction of achievement domain x versatility was supported. In particular, no models were able to account for the precipitous decrease (2.7 to 8.6 years) in the life spans of versatile scientists when compared to nonversatile scientists. Consequently, a new explanatory model was proposed that draws on psychopathology, vocation choice, and personality characteristics as factors underlying the apparent differences in life span across achievement domains and versatility.

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PubMed1989

A practical approach to creative teaching: an experiment.

The purpose of this experiment was to see if creative teaching methods would prove effective when included in a school of nursing teaching programme. This would be demonstrated by significant differences in levels of achievement in assessments and a demonstration that the knowledge gained was applied to the clinical situation. Didactic teaching methods were exchanged for a more creative approach without alteration of the course structure. The quasi experimental method was used, with four introductory courses of 20 nursing students at two separate district schools as the sample, two groups acting as the control groups and two as the experimental groups. The teaching sessions introduced medical problems associated with poor oxygenation, particularly those consequent to heart disease. The teaching was supported by appropriate care planning within the Roper et al. (1981) theoretical framework. Three distinct areas were identified; fact learning, e.g. anatomy and physiology, problem identifications and planning for nursing, intervention and skill learning. Students in the experimental groups were given work sheets and facilities for self learning whilst those in the control groups continued with a traditional lecture/demonstration format. The results of the experiment were evaluated by testing all four groups using multiple choice objective tests, essays, problem solving and nursing intervention exercises and practical assessments. The findings showed that the experimental groups did no better in the multiple choice objective tests or in the essays than the control groups but they did do significantly better in the problem identification and planning for nursing intervention exercise. In the assessment of practical skills there was no difference between the groups in skill performance but the experimental groups were able to apply the theory significantly better than the control groups.

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PubMed2005

Preserved painting creativity in an artist with Alzheimer's disease.

Creativity in any of its forms, either visual, musical, literary or performing arts, may be conceived as a cognitive capability, and should be actively explored in relation to patients with Alzheimer disease and related dementias, even when other cognitive functions do not allow us to even communicate with them. We are reporting the case of a talented artist with the diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer disease (AD) with progressive cognitive impairment but with preservation of her creativity until very late in the course of the disease.

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PubMed2004

Testing the efficacy of a creative-arts intervention with family caregivers of patients with cancer.

PURPOSE: To test the efficacy of a creative arts intervention (CAI) with family caregivers of patients with cancer. DESIGN: A pre-posttest quasi-experimental design, with participation in the CAI as the independent variable and stress, anxiety, and emotions as the dependent variables. METHOD: The 6-month study was implemented at a regional cancer treatment center with family caregivers. The CAI consisted of several creative arts activities designed for delivery at the bedside. FINDINGS: Forty family caregivers reported significantly reduced stress, lowered anxiety, and increased positive emotions following CAI participation. CONCLUSIONS: The CAI promoted short-term well being in this family caregiver sample. Caregivers also increased positive communication with cancer patients and health care providers while expressing delight over their handmade pieces of art.

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That place where we live: the discovery of self through the creative play experience.

TOPIC: The origin and meaning of play in relation to D.W. Winnicott's (1971) conceptualization of the intermediate area of experience and transitional object, and transitional phenomena formation. PURPOSE: To demonstrate how the nurse therapist can enhance the child's discovery of self and healthy development through creativity and play. SOURCES: Clinical experiences with children in a school-based mental health program and literature support. CONCLUSIONS: By providing "good enough" mothering and a holding environment to enhance the development of a creative play experience, the nurse allows the child to find meaning through self-expression and, ultimately, health.

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PubMed1979

Einstein's creative thinking and the general theory of relativity: a documented report.

A document written by Albert Einstein has recently come to light in which the eminent scientist described the actual sequence of his thoughts leading to the development of the general theory of relativity. The key creative thought was an instance of a type of creative cognition the author has previously designated "Janusian thinking," Janusian thinking consists of actively conceiving two or more opposite or antithetical concepts, ideas, or images simultaneously. This form of high-level secondary process cognition has been found to operate widely in art, science, and other fields.

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PubMed1978

Creativity and self-actualization in the aging personality.

Twenty-five residents (sixty-nine to ninety-three years old) of two Israeli homes for the elderly were investigated in order to see if there was a correlation between the creative attitude (self-actualizing personality) and the way of coping with the process of aging and attitude toward death. The results showed that the more creative-actualizing a personality, the better the coping with aging phenomena and the less denial of death.

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PubMed1985

The creative process in child psychotherapy.

A brief review of the psychological literature concerning the creative process is presented with a focus on Arieti's formulation regarding creativity and on Kubie's hypothesis about the importance of the preconscious. Childrens' use of fantasy and imaginative play through storytelling is presented as a useful therapeutic modality. Three cases vignettes are offered for illustration.

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PubMed1992

Psychotherapeutic facilitation of musical creativity.

The distinction between musical composition and performing is an historical artifact. Both activities have creative components, expressed by composers through the originality of their scores, and by performers through their unique and stirring interpretations. Music represents an artistic refinement of biologically driven activities, serving the need for communication, self-orientation, social contact, and emotional expression through soundmaking. Developmental factors--attachment to a soundmaking object, parental influence, the role of teachers, and supportive environments--have been reviewed in connection with the choice of music as career or avocation, and in the assessment of talents and handicaps presented by musical patients. Some historical examples serve to show that psychotherapy has traditionally been modified to fit the special needs of musicians. Familiarity with the musical culture and community can be helpful in treating these patients, and special clinics or health programs for performing artists have been established over the past few years. Three case examples are presented, based on experience with musician-patients in San Francisco, to illustrate different ways of providing psychotherapy that enhances musical creativity.

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PubMed1992

The enigmatic relationship of creativity to mental health and psychopathology.

Creativity is a capacity with many faces, some sublime, others pathological, and still others somewhere in between. Creativity plus the talent to use it are the necessary ingredients of the great artist. People who have had the experience of emotional depths and who have had talent may constitute the majority of artists. Those with talent who have been taken over by their emotions may still be great artists--but there is a difference.

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PubMed1978

Insight and creativity.

The similarities between the process of creativity in art and science and the phenomenon of insight in psychoanalysis are examined according to the four criteria of thought: categorization, abstraction, context, and association. The thesis is that both creativity and insight are based on a synthesis of the operational modes of the primary and secondary processes.

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