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Mental health is one of the potential outcomes of creative behavior deserving of further research, as much of previous anecdotal and scientific evidence has offered conflicting findings on this topic. Integrating the expertise and methods used by scholars in different disciplines (e.g., art therapy, clinical psychology, cognitive psychology, personality psychology) may help clarify the conditions under which creative behavior is or is not helpful for specific aspects of mental health, and generate new insights into the mechanisms that might explain such benefits.

Creativity for Mental Health: Seeking New Answers to an Old Question

Creativity. Theories – Research - Applications

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Mental health is one of the potential outcomes of creative behavior deserving of further research, as much of previous anecdotal and scientific evidence has...

Creativity for Mental Health: Seeking New Answers to an Old Question

Publié en ligne: 03 janv. 2019

Pages: 165 - 169

Reçu: 01 déc. 2018

Accepté: 20 déc. 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ctra-2018-0014

Mots clés
Creativity, Mental health, Psychopathology, Mechanisms

© 2018 Marie Forgeard, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Creativity for Mental Health: Seeking New Answers to an Old Question

Publié en ligne: 03 janv. 2019

Pages: 165 - 169

Reçu: 01 déc. 2018

Accepté: 20 déc. 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ctra-2018-0014

Mots clésCreativity, Mental health, Psychopathology, Mechanisms

© 2018 Marie Forgeard, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Mots clés
Creativity, Mental health, Psychopathology, Mechanisms