New Horizons in Creativity

The book includes 13 chapters by world-renowned experts in creativity  which present new viewpoints about major processes of creativity and  main domains in which it is manifested and needs to be explored. Two of  the chapters are devoted to health and wellbeing, dealing with the role  of intuition in medicine (chapter 7), of technology in nursing (chapter  9) and of mindfulness and related techniques in mental wellbeing  (chapter 8). The emotional aspect is counterbalanced by the  cognitively-grounded explorations dealing with problem-solving (chapter  11), science and education in mathematics (chapter 10) and with humor  (chapter 12) which contributes its share for moderating excessive  seriousness in most domains of life. Three chapters deal with  organization in terms of work, production (chapters 2 and 3) and perhaps  unexpectedly with diplomacy (chapter 4) which provides the overall  framework for social and administrative functioning. Creativity in the  external environment is the dominant theme of the chapter that deals  with the landscape (chapter 5) and ecology (chapter 6). The book is  framed by two chapters in the beginning (chapter 1) and at the end  (chapter 13). The first chapter provides an introduction to the study of  creativity based on the major developmental trends in theory and  methodology in the past up to the present (chapter 1). The last chapter  provides an integrative introduction for development of creativity in  the future, based on motivation, cognition and emotion, characterizing  the producers of creativity and those who benefit from it through  experiencing and implementation (chapter 13). Each chapter contributes  its share to highlighting the role and potential contribution of  creativity to enhancing the meaningfulness of our life and being in the  world.