ABSTRACT
Creativity is possible in the smallest space as well as the biggest space, and sometimes constraint can be stimulating. As consciousness by definition is mysterious, creativity will always be at least partly mysterious too. Perhaps some people or groups are either more sensitive to dissonance, or more motivated to look for it, and perhaps the peoples label these people ‘artists’, but creativity seems to be a universal human experience; and dissonance is an experience that is almost universally present in our patients’ minds. Since Wallas, a number of different models for creativity have been proposed, all of which involve the result of interaction, balance and integration of different processes which are triggered in response to cognitive dissonance. So, again, creativity appears to arise from dynamic tension and the relational interplay between different types of knowledge and different types of thinking. Creativity is also about converging from the many to the singular, about choosing specific ideas and systematically putting them into practice.
