Unleashing the artist within : breaking through blocks and restoring creative purpose / Eric Maisel, PhD.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maisel, Eric, 1947- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creative ability.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 216 pages)

Place of Publication:

Mineola, New York : Ixia Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Maisel intimately understands the anxieties of the creative process and the psychological landscape that artists inhabit. Strong on the psychology, he is equally strong on practicalities." - The Writer Magazine Are you a painter, writer, actor, dancer, musician, or would-be creative? Are you stuck in the process of creating and sharing your art? In Unleashing the Artist Within, Eric Maisel, PhD offers lessons, anecdotes, and real-life case studies that will help you unlock your creative powers. Dr. Maisel focuses on the reality of artistic development, explaining that unfinished and disappointing works are not a matter of personal weakness or unfortunate circumstances; they are simply daily occurrences in the lives of imaginative people. His twelve lessons demonstrate how to recover from dashed hopes and restore lost meaning. Helpful exercises show how to work through the process, managing the daily grind and pushing past everyday resistance.

Contents:

Embracing the realities of process

Cracking through everyday resistance

Getting hungry

Restoring lost meaning

Recovering from dashed hopes

Supporting right feeling via right thinking

Creating and relating

Managing the daily grind

Reducing internal dramas

Meeting the marketplace

Picking, protecting, and honoring your creative space

Speaking up and asking for what you need.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780486846354

0486846350