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The Myth of the Mentally Ill Creative blog entry about creativity and mental illness by a professor of psychology and creativity scientist Keith Sawyer; A journey into chaos: Creativity and the unconscious Archived 2019-08-15 at the Wayback Machine by Nancy C Andreasen, Mens Sana Monographs, 2011, 9(1), p 42–53.
Creativity is the ability to form novel and valuable ideas or works using one's imagination. Products of creativity may be intangible (e.g. an idea, scientific theory , literary work , musical composition , or joke ), or a physical object (e.g. an invention , dish or meal, piece of jewelry , costume , a painting ).
In psychology, grandiosity is a sense of superiority, uniqueness, or invulnerability that is unrealistic and not based on personal capability.It may be expressed by exaggerated beliefs regarding one's abilities, the belief that few other people have anything in common with oneself, and that one can only be understood by a few, very special people. [1]
In his scheme, which remains influential today, people possess status in the sense of honor because they belong to specific groups with unique lifestyles and privileges. [6] Modern sociologists and social psychologists broadened this understanding of status to refer to one's relative level of respectability and honor more generally. [7]
Furthermore, some have suggested that the 'intelligences' refer to talents, personality, or ability rather than a distinct form of intelligence. [ 20 ] The two intelligences that are most associated with the traditional I.Q. or general intelligence are the linguistic and logical-mathematical intelligences.
In The New York Times Book Review, Jennifer Senior wrote that the book was "beautifully told, humanizing, important"; [4] The Boston Globe called it "as emotionally resonant as any [book] this year"; [5] and in Science, the cognitive neuroscientist Francesca Happé wrote, "It is a beautifully written and thoughtfully crafted book, a historical tour of autism, richly populated with fascinating ...
Self-determination theory (SDT) is a macro theory of human motivation and personality that concerns people's innate growth tendencies and innate psychological needs. It pertains to the motivation behind people's choices in the absence of external influences and distractions.