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Promoting Health Through Creativity
Therese Schmid
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Description for Promoting Health Through Creativity
Paperback. Creativity derives from biological changes during human evolution as a tool that is needed for survival. The successful use of creativity generates feelings of pleasure and self-esteem that are beneficial to health. In particular, it can help depression. This book talks about redefining the value to health of creativity. Num Pages: 234 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JMR; MQTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 384.
This book is about redefining the value to health of creativity. Creativity derives from biological changes during human evolution as a tool that is needed for survival. The successful use of creativity generates feelings of pleasure and self-esteem that are beneficial to health. In particular, it can help depression. Current values do not give adequate importance to creativity, and the author challenges these values in this book.
This book is about redefining the value to health of creativity. Creativity derives from biological changes during human evolution as a tool that is needed for survival. The successful use of creativity generates feelings of pleasure and self-esteem that are beneficial to health. In particular, it can help depression. Current values do not give adequate importance to creativity, and the author challenges these values in this book.
The book contains contributed chapters on a theory of creativity as an innate capacity, the therapeutic benefits of creativity, factors that encourage or inhibit creativity and current research on these, and accounts ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
234
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781861564788
SKU
V9781861564788
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-50
About Therese Schmid
Therese Schmid, Lecturer in Occupational Therapy, School of Health Sciences, University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia.
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