The Creative Artist, Mental Disturbance, and Mental Health.

      Аннотация: This book describes The Artistic Theory of Psychology, in which a dominant focus is on the successful creative artist and mental health. However, the book also describes the relationship of the creative artist to mental disturbance in various contexts, including an innovative academic treatment, personal experiential essays written by the author, excerpts related to the creative artist from the author's semi-autobiographical novel, and illustrative blog excerpts from the author's struggling actor/creative artist son. The main theme of the book is that through humanistic supportive environments for creative artists, the phenomenon of the successful creative artist in the context of success in both one's creative artistic endeavors as well as a satisfactory adjustment to day-to-day life, can be nourished and enhanced. The focus is on viewing the creative artist in a humanistic context as an alternative to psychiatric classifications and medications, and includes a description of the qualities of eccentricity, resilience, and egocentrism related to the author's son's struggling actor blog entries, and the relationship of these qualities to mental disturbance and mental health.

Ключевые слова: Humanistic psychology, mental health, Resilience, creative artist, mental disturbance, egocentrism, natural dimension, Eccentricity