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	<title>The Creative Mind</title>
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	<description>This blog by Dougles Eby explores the psychology of creative expression and personal growth.</description>
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		<title>Hearing in Colors, Tasting Voices: The Experience of Synesthesia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;What would be truly surprising would be to find that sound could not suggest colour, that colours could not evoke the idea of a melody, and that sound and colour were unsuitable for the translation of ideas, seeing that things have always found their expression through a system of reciprocal analogy.&#8221; Charles Baudelaire A simple [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/creative-mind/2012/02/hearing-in-colors-tasting-voices-the-experience-of-synesthesia/</link>
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		<title>Rethinking Depression and Creativity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I equated creativity with artists, innovators, entrepreneurs, designers, fashion… I was none of that – until I sunk into depression.&#8221; Writer Enoch Li says she never thought she had any creative talent, but in dealing with depression &#8220;rediscovered my creativity, which spurred my recovery.&#8221; From post on my Depression and Creativity site: Depressed Creativity. Many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/creative-mind/2012/02/rethinking-depression-and-creativity/</link>
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		<title>Playing Video Games and Your Creative Mind</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Creative thinking and expression involves many skills and cognitive abilities, which can be enhanced by all sorts of experiences, even video games. As reported in a news release, a Michigan State University study concluded that &#8220;both boys and girls who play video games tend to be more creative, regardless of whether the games are violent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/creative-mind/2012/02/playing-video-games-and-your-creative-mind/</link>
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		<title>Michelle Williams on Acting and Imagination</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Using your imagination is always a fine thing for an actor to do.&#8221; Michelle Williams &#8220;Great acting comes from a well-developed imagination.&#8221; Acting teacher Jason Bennett Imagination is central to creative expression. Psychologist Carl Jung talked about using imagination as a means to access our unconscious, one of the main sources of creative ideas and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/creative-mind/2012/02/michelle-williams-on-acting-and-imagination/</link>
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		<title>Screenwriting: Karen Moncrieff on Creating a Heightened Awareness of Human Struggles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Maybe my calling is to feel deeply some aspects of human pain and grief.” Karen Moncrieff Writing the script for one of her insightful and powerful movies &#8211; Blue Car (2002) &#8211; was a &#8220;wrenching, emotional experience&#8221; for writer and director Karen Moncrieff, according to a Writers Guild magazine article. She wrote it, she said, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/creative-mind/2012/02/screenwriting-karen-moncrieff-on-creating-a-heightened-awareness-of-human-struggles/</link>
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		<title>An Intense Inner Pressure to Create</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I started out as a painter, and then painting led to cinema&#8230; Then cinema led to so many different areas…&#8221; David Lynch In her book, Mary-Elaine Jacobsen quotes some insightful comments by Annemarie Roeper (founder of the Roeper School and The Roeper Review, a professional journal on the gifted) about the intense inner pressure to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/creative-mind/2012/02/an-intense-inner-pressure-to-create/</link>
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		<title>Scrapping The Starving Artist Mythology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I love breaking the myth of the starving artist. That is such a lie that people tell artists from the day they are born, and it&#8217;s so sad that so many artists psych themselves out with this myth.&#8221; Musician Magdalen Hsu-Li continues, &#8220;There is always a way to make a great living from music or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/creative-mind/2012/01/scrapping-the-starving-artist-mythology/</link>
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		<title>Filmmaker So Yong Kim on Facing Her Unlikeable Parts When Writing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So Yong Kim is a director, producer and writer. Her latest movie is &#8220;For Ellen,&#8221; starring Paul Dano and Jena Malone. In an interview, she talks about a number of aspects of developing her script and shooting the film &#8211; aspects of creative expression that impact other artists as well. Like many creative and talented [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/creative-mind/2012/01/filmmaker-so-yong-kim-on-facing-her-unlikeable-parts-when-writing/</link>
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		<title>Marketing Yourself And Your Creative Work: Don&#8217;t You Deserve a Wider Audience?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How do you think about being creative versus the business aspects of success, like marketing? Do you see them as separate, even mutually exclusive? Do you think of creative expression as something more &#8220;spiritual&#8221; or &#8220;pure&#8221; than sales or business? The photo &#8211; &#8220;Artist at work&#8221; by Balaji Dutt &#8211; reflects how many creative people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/creative-mind/2012/01/marketing-yourself-and-your-creative-work-dont-you-deserve-a-wider-audience/</link>
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		<title>More Intelligence, More Creative?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do we get more creative with more intelligence? How do intelligence and creative ability interact? Dean Keith Simonton, PhD thinks &#8220;Intelligence is purely a cognitive construct. Creativity on the other hand, I see as being much more complex.&#8221; Like other writers on creativity, he makes a distinction between &#8220;little c creativity&#8221; and &#8220;big C creativity.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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