Creativity and Madness: Shelley Carson on the Psychology of Creativity
Faculty insight: Shelley Carson interview
What is the psychology of creativity? Shelley Carson, a Harvard Extension School psychology instructor, discusses the historic links between creativity and depression, with Jenny Attiyeh of ThoughtCast.
Psychology courses and degrees
- Explore topics like creativity and madness in Carson’s course Creativity: Geniuses, Madmen, and Harvard Students
- See all psychology courses
- Master of Liberal Arts Program, psychology concentration
Shelley Carson’s blogs and books
- Life as Art blog at Psychology Today
- Creativity in the Twenty-first Century blog at the Huffington Post
- Buy Carson’s book Your Creative Brain at Amazon
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