Creative Explorations

In Art, Literature, Science and the Everyday

Albert Rothenberg, M.D.

Teaching Poetry to Adolescents With Schizophrenia

Although poetry writing by schizophrenic adolescents can be disruptive and inappropriate, correcting conceptual difficulties can be beneficial for mental illness and literature.

The Creative Process of a Nobel Laureate

A psychological test with female executives and an intensive interview with a female Nobel laureate shows orientation and capacity for creative cognition.

The Beneficial Use of Humor in Psychotherapy

Humorous remarks are sometimes considered denigrating or hostile but the use of thoughtful and meaningful use of humor by the therapist can be both facilitative and comforting.

Psychotherapy as a Mutual Creative Process

Psychotherapy is a mutual creative process producing effective change in the patient's self and behavior. The therapist uses the homospatial process for metaphor and empathy.

Are Brilliance and Genius Often Associated with Disturbance?

There is a long tradition linking brilliance, genius, and creativity with mental disorders, but the connection is refuted by experimental and intensive interview research.

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Secrecy

People suffering from OCD are often secretive about their symptoms, which makes it more difficult for them to receive key treatments.

Inspiration, Insight, and the Literary Creative Process

Although inspiration appears to be a matter of psychological insight, the two phenomena differ radically in the literary creative process.

The Mystique of the Unconscious in Creativity

The Unconscious is not simply not-consciousness but is a repository of socially and personally unacceptable concepts and feelings which do not generate creative art or science.

Madness And Glory (Postscript)

The story of Dr. Phillipe Pinel who struck the chains and shackles from the hospitalized mentally ill during the French Revolution and, before Freud, developed basic psychotherapy.

Madness and Glory (40): Truth in Dreams

This is the story of Dr. Phillipe Pinel who stuck the chains and shackles from the hospitalized mentally ill and, before Freud, developed meaningful psychotherapy.

Madness and Glory (39): Arrest

This is the story of Dr. Phillipe Pinel who struck the chains and shackles from the hospitalized mentally ill and, before Freud, developed meaningful psychotherapy.

Madness and Glory (38): Triumvirate

This is the story of Dr. Phillipe Pinel, who struck the chains and shackles from the hospitalized mentally ill and, before Freud, developed meaningful psychotherapy.

Madness and Glory (37): Continued Courtship

This is the story of Dr. Phillipe Pinel who struck the chains and shackles from the hospitalized mentally ill and, before Freud, developed meaningful psychotherapy.

Madness and Glory (36): Progress

This is the story of Dr. Phillipe Pinel, who struck the chains and shackles from the hospitalized mentally ill and, before Freud, developed meaingful psychotherapy.

Madness and Glory (35): Downfall

This is the story of Dr. Phillipe Pinel who struck the chains and shackles from the hospitalized mentally ill and, before Freud, developed meaningful psychotherapy.

Madness and Glory (34): The Patient Speaks

This is the story of Dr. Phillipe Pinel wh struck the chains and shackles from hospitalized mental patients and, before Freud, did meaningful psychotherapy.

Madness and Glory (33): Attack on the Hospital

This is the story of Dr. Phillpe Pinel wh struck the shackles and the chains from the hospitalized mentally ill and, before Freud, developed meaningful psychotherapy.

Madness and Glory (32): Robespierre

This is the story of Dr. Phillip Pinel who struck the shackles and chains from hospitalized mental patients and; before Freud, developed a meaningful psychotherapy.

Madness and Glory (31): Therapeutic Encounters

This is the story of Dr. Philippe Pinel, who struck the chains and shackles fron hospitalized mental patients and developed, before Freud, meaningful psychotherapy.

Madness and Glory (30): A Dinner

Chapter 29 of the saga of Dr. Phillipe Pinel, father of modern psychiatry.

Madness and Glory (29): Parents

This is the story of Dr. Phillipe Pinel, who struck the chains and shackles from hospitalized mentl patients and developed, before Freud, meaningful psychotherapy.

Madness and Glory (28): The Conspirators

This is the story of Dr. Phillipe Pinel, who struck the chains and shackles from hospitalized mental patients and developed, before Freud, meaningful psychotherapy,

Madness and Glory, ( 27): A Deep Split

This is chapter 27 of the story of Dr. Phillipe Pinel, father of modern psychiatry.

Madness and Glory (26): Breakdown

This is the story of Dr. Philippe Pinel, who struck the chains and shackles from hospitalized mental patients and developed, before Freud, meaningful psychotherapy.

Madness and Glory: (25): Therapy

This is the story of Dr. Phillipe Pinel , who struck the chains and shackles from hospitalized mental patients and developed, before Freud, meaningful psychotherapy.

Madness and Glory: (24): A Visit

This is the story of Dr. Phillipe Pinel, who struck the chains and shackles from hospitalized mental patients and developed, before Freud, psychotherapy.

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This is the story of Dr. Phillipe Pinel, who struck the chains and shackles from hospitalized mental patients and developed, before Freud, meaningful psychotherapy.

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This is the story of Dr. Phillipe Pinel, who struck the chains and shackles from hospitalized mental patients and developed, before Freud, meaningful psychotherapy.

Madness and Glory: (23) : Inquest

This is the story of Dr. Phillipe Pinel, who struck the chains and shackles from hospitalized mental patients and developed, before Freud, meaningful psychotherapy.

Madness and Glory, (22): Treatment

The story of Dr. Phillipe Pinel, who struck the chains and shackles from hospitalized mental patients and developed meaningful psychotherapy.

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