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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

Published Online: Jan 03, 2019

Page range: 165 - 169

Received: Dec 01, 2018

Accepted: Dec 20, 2018

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

Keywords
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

Published Online: Jan 03, 2019

Page range: 165 - 169

Received: Dec 01, 2018

Accepted: Dec 20, 2018

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

KeywordsCreativity, Mental health, Psychopathology, Mechanisms

© 2018 Marie Forgeard, published by Sciendo

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

Keywords
Creativity, Mental health, Psychopathology, Mechanisms