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Creativity, trauma, and resilience /

"Creativity, Trauma, and Resilience is an examination of creativity and its ability to foster meaning, purpose, and a deeper sense of connection. This is particularly important for individuals who experience higher doses of childhood and adult trauma and who may be contending with the residual...

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Main Authors: Thomson, Paula
Group Author: Jaque, S. Victoria
Published: Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.,
Publisher Address: Lanham, Maryland :
Publication Dates: [2019]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Creative ability
Psychic trauma
Resilience Personality trait
Summary: "Creativity, Trauma, and Resilience is an examination of creativity and its ability to foster meaning, purpose, and a deeper sense of connection. This is particularly important for individuals who experience higher doses of childhood and adult trauma and who may be contending with the residual effects of terror and uncertainty. Paula Thomson and S. Victoria Jaque outline psychological, physiologic, and neurobiological effects of early attachment ruptures, childhood adversity, adult trauma, and trauma-related factors, and explore how the potential negative trajectory of adversity can be count
Carrier Form: xi, 429 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-420) and index.
ISBN: 9781498560207
1498560202
Index Number: BF408
CLC: B842.4
Call Number: B842.4/T484
Contents: Introduction -- Section I. Creativity. Theories of creativity -- Talent and giftedness -- Creative process -- Fantasy and pathology -- Neurobiological and physiologic components of creativity -- Section II. Trauma. Childhood adversity -- Attachment -- Trauma and loss -- Neurobiological and psychophysiological effects of childhood adversity, trauma, and loss experiences -- Shame -- Dissociation -- Section III. Resilience. Regulation and resilience : psychosocial and biological -- Hardiness and post-traumatic growth -- Constricting and fostering creative resilience : a complex relationship.

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