Buch, Englisch, 632 Seiten, Format (B × H): 184 mm x 261 mm, Gewicht: 1334 g
Reihe: Oxford Library of Psychology
Mind-Wandering, Creativity, and Dreaming
Buch, Englisch, 632 Seiten, Format (B × H): 184 mm x 261 mm, Gewicht: 1334 g
Reihe: Oxford Library of Psychology
ISBN: 978-0-19-046474-5
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
Spontaneous thought includes our daytime fantasies and mind-wandering; the flashes of insight and inspiration familiar to the artist, scientist, and inventor; the nighttime visions we call dreams; and clinical phenomena such as repetitive depressive rumination.
This Handbook brings together views from neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, phenomenology, history, education, contemplative traditions, and clinical practice to begin to address the ubiquitous but poorly understood mental phenomena that we collectively call 'spontaneous thought.'
In studying such an abstruse and seemingly impractical subject, we should remember that our capacity for spontaneity, originality, and creativity defines us as a species - and as individuals. Spontaneous forms of thought enable us to transcend not only the here and now of perceptual experience, but also the bonds of our deliberately-controlled and goal-directed cognition; they allow the space for us to be other than who we are, and for our minds to think beyond the limitations of our current viewpoints and beliefs.
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- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Kognitivismus
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Neurologie, Klinische Neurowissenschaft
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Gedächtnis