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Author:   Andrew Steptoe (Professor, Department of Psychology, Professor, Department of Psychology, St George's Hospital, London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 24.80cm
Weight:   0.707kg
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9780198523734

ISBN 10:   0198523734
Pages:   284
Publication Date:   25 June 1998
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Andrew Steptoe: Exceptional Creativity and the Psychological Sciences 2: David T. Lykken: The Genetics of Genius 3: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Creativity and Genius: A Systems Perspective 4: Andreas C. Lehmann & K. Anders Ericsson: Historical Developments of Expert Performance: Public Performance of Music 5: Michael J.A. Howe: Early Lives: Prodigies and Non-prodigies 6: Robert S. Albert: Mathematical Giftedness and Mathematical Genius: A Comparison of G.H. Hardy and Srinivasa Ramanujan 7: Andrew Steptoe: Mozart: Resilience Under Stress 8: Dean Keith Simonton, Kathleen A. Taylor and Vincent Cassandro: The Creative Genius of William Shakespeare: Historiometric Analyses of his Plays and Sonnets 9: Kay Redfield Jamison: Lord Byron: The Apostle of Affliction 10: Gordon Claridge: Creativity and Madness: Clues from Modern Psychiatric Diagnosis 11: Andrew Steptoe: Artistic Temperament in the Italian Renaissance: A Study of Giorgio Vasari's Lives

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<br> This book is about real genius. . . . Steptoe (Univ. of London, UK) provides genuinely high quality contributions by scholars of artists like Mozart, Shakespeare, Byron, and Darwin. Case histories of individuals are fascinating. Similar to the engaging Creativity & Madness, ed. by Barry Panter et al. (CH, May'95), this volume takes another step: it uses a variety of techniques to measure and quantify the personalities, success, style, and expertise of the subjects. Steptoe's volume will serve as a stepping-stone for additional research on individual brilliance; from this research and the investigations that should follow it, one will be able to learn not only more about the individual genius but about the consistency and diversity of remarkable minds. Recommended for upper-division undergraduates through faculty and practitioners. --Choice<br> Gathering the thoughts of colleagues from around the globe, Andrew Steptoe, a professor of psychology at St George's Hospital, London, has

This book is about real genius. . . . Steptoe (Univ. of London, UK) provides genuinely high quality contributions by scholars of artists like Mozart, Shakespeare, Byron, and Darwin. Case histories of individuals are fascinating. Similar to the engaging Creativity & Madness, ed. by Barry Panter et al. (CH, May'95), this volume takes another step: it uses a variety of techniques to measure and quantify the personalities, success, style, and expertise of the subjects. Steptoe's volume will serve as a stepping-stone for additional research on individual brilliance; from this research and the investigations that should follow it, one will be able to learn not only more about the individual genius but about the consistency and diversity of remarkable minds. Recommended for upper-division undergraduates through faculty and practitioners. --Choice<br> Gathering the thoughts of colleagues from around the globe, Andrew Steptoe, a professor of psychology at St George's Hospital, London, has produced a book that is . . . notable for the ambition of the questions it addresses. --Times Literary Supplement<br> . . .if you want to learn about some geniuses without coming away with a complete understanding of what turned them into geniuses, this book may be for you. --American Journal of Pshychology<br>

This rich, informative and literate collection of papers works around ideas of genius. The writers are generally well-known within their specialities, and the disagreement between them makes for a thought provoking read. Psychological Medicine, October 1999... This book provides an interesting, thought provoking read.Michael Rutter, THES, June 1999

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