ABSTRACT
The story of creating a moving work in the arts or a ground-breaking scientific discovery is fascinating in and of itself. Such stories are also important for psychology, examples of human functioning at its very best. This book looks at specific episodes of the creation of a single work and reconstructs how it was experienced by the creative person. Diaries, notebooks, sketches, letters, and interviews point to the beginnings of a creative episode and the steps, stops, and starts along the way to fulfilment. Each chapter will explore the extent to which the story confirms the concepts creativity researchers have already put forward, which need to be broadened, and what a narrative-phenomenological approach to case studies can add. The stories should be of interest to psychologists, scholars, and all who seek to understand the human mind at work.
