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Creative Personality in Schizophreniform Disorder

Psychological Reports, 1992
This paper sets forth the contention that a schizophreniform disorder can enhance creativity. Given the usual brief duration of no more than six months, this disorder may enable the resilient ego of a creative person to descend temporarily into the symbolic sea of the unconscious.
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The Creative Person

Journal of Business Ethics, 1993
The term creativity, as used in psychology, has become chic. Many trend-setting terms live a short and hectic life and are soon forced to make room for new devices in the public show-windows. Not long ago a prominent creativity researcher asked if her beloved subject might also go out of fashion one day soon.
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The Creative Personality

Gifted Child Quarterly, 2005
The study of the creative personality has established itself as a major avenue of research on creativity and creative problem solving, other areas being creative process, product, and environment (or press). With respect to personality research, over the past 50-plus years, many studies have examined characteristics, attitudes, preferences, styles, and
Edwin C. Selby   +2 more
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Creative Potential, Creative Achievement, and Personal Growth

Journal of Personality, 2000
We tested the idea that young people who have creative potential (are complex and unconventional) increase in intrapsychic awareness as they mature but often have difficulty with psychosocial growth, especially the development of a cohesive identity; and that for some women commitment to creative work solves the problem of psychosocial integration and ...
Helson, R., Lilgendahl, Jennifer Pals
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Personality and Creativity: The Dual Pathway to Creativity Model and a Research Agenda

Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2013
Abstract To better understand the relation between personality traits and creativity, we invoke the Dual‐Pathway to Creativity model (DPCM) that identifies two pathways to creative outcomes: (1) flexible processing of information (cognitive flexibility) and (2) persistent probing, and systematically and incrementally combining ...
Baas, M.   +4 more
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THE PERSONALITY PATTERN OF CREATIVE ARTISTS

British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1967
S ummary . Sixty‐three visual artists and twenty‐eight craft students were compared with a matched control group. Significant differences in mean scores between artists and controls were found on twelve factors of the 16PF ...
P G, Cross, R B, Cattell, H J, Butcher
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Personality and creativity

Personality and Individual Differences, 1996
Abstract Previous research has provided conflicting accounts of the effects of personality on creative behaviour. This study examines the issue by means of factor analysis and multivariate analysis of variance. Different measures of creative behaviour and cognitive abilities are correlated with personal characteristics such as psychoticism ...
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The Effect of Leucotomy On Creative Personality

Journal of Mental Science, 1948
In some of our earliest investigations into the effect of leucotomy we used the Rorschach test, hoping thereby to obtain a fairly full and clear-cut picture of the personality changes produced by the operation, but it was found that this test had the disadvantage that, when repeated, memory of the previous test or tests to some extent minimizes the ...
E L, HUTTON, M, BASSETT
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Primary Process in Creative Persons

Journal of Personality Assessment, 1982
The major hypothesis that quantity, quality, and control of primary process contents would be different in two groups of artists as a function of age and experience were tested by means of the Rorschach test. The Holt system of scoring was employed. A group of art students, mean age 21.7, and a group of renowned, mature artists, mean age 41.7, were ...
S Z, Dudek, G, Chamberland-Bouhadana
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Creativity, personality, and hoarding behavior

Psychiatry Research, 2014
Compulsive hoarding is a debilitating illness that is characterized by excessive collection of and failure to discard items, irrespective of their uselessness or hazardousness. Anecdotal evidence suggests that individuals who hoard may be more creative than individuals without hoarding behavior; however, this hypothesis has never been tested ...
Dianne M, Hezel, Jill M, Hooley
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