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Even those of us not in explicitly creative fields must come up with new ideas and insights in order to move ahead. How can we shake up our thinking patterns? Creativity has been pegged to conducive environments, perfect collaborators, personality traits, serendipity, and even spiritual muses. While research psychologists are interested in increasing innovative thinking, clinical psychologists sometimes encourage patients to use artistic expression as a way to confront difficult feelings.

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Creativity Blogs

Beautiful Minds
Musings on the Many Paths to Greatness
By Scott Barry Kaufman
Creating in Flow
Insights and advice about all forms of creative expression.
By Susan K. Perry, Ph.D.
Creative Thinkering
Resurrecting your natural creativity through inspiring techniques and practical examples
By Michael Michalko
Creativity as a Way of Life
How healing arts and psychotherapy can unlock the urge to create
By Jean Pollack, Ph.D.
Finding Your Voice
Insights into creative expression, for everyone on the stage of life.
By Jennifer Hamady
Genius and Madness
From Elvis to Picasso and the thorny intersection of "madness" and creativity.
By William Todd Schultz
Global Cosmopolitans
The key players in the next stage of globalization, and the creative edge they bring to companies.
By Linda Brimm, Ph.D.
Mindbloggling
Current ideas about cultural evolution and the creative processes that power it.
By Liane Gabora, Ph.D.