The Van Gogh Blues

Author: Eric Maisel, PhD
Publisher: New World Library
ISBN: 1608681939
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
Creative people will experience depression — that’s a given. It’s a given because they are regularly confronted by doubts about the meaningfulness of their efforts. Theirs is a kind of depression that does not respond to pharmaceutical treatment. What’s required is healing in the realm of meaning.In this groundbreaking book, Eric Maisel teaches creative people how to handle these recurrent crises of meaning and how to successfully manage the anxieties of the creative process. Using examples both from the lives of famous creators such as van Gogh and from his own creativity coaching practice, Maisel explains that despite their inevitable difficulties, creative people possess the ability to forge relationships, repair themselves, and find meaning in their work and their lives. Maisel presents a step-by-step plan to help creative people handle their special brand of depression and rediscover the reasons they are driven to create in the first place.

The Creativity Book

Author: Eric Maisel
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440629064
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
Whatever you do, says Dr. Eric Maisel, creativity helps you do it better. Creativity encourages the artist to paint more frequently and authentically. It allows a busy executive to see her options more quickly, make changes more fluidly, and become more self-directing and confident. In this book, America's foremost expert on the psychological side of the creative process presents a complete one-year plan for increasing and unleashing your creativity. It includes two disucssions/exercises per week, and culminates in a guided project of your choice—from working on a current novel or symphony to planning a new home business or becoming a more effective supervisor.

Vincent's Colors

Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811850995
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

Book Description
Combines van Gogh's paintings with his own words, describing each work of art and introducing young readers to the concept of color.

Fearless Creating

Author: Eric Maisel
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0874778050
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
For writers, painters, or performers in any field, new hope for overcoming creative blocks and finishing the art of their dreams. The blank page, empty canvas, or uncarved stone will often fill artists with dread. But so may the thought of finishing, showing, or even selling their work. It is in this "artistic anxiety" that creative blocks begin. With an understanding that could only be gained through years of experience in counseling artists, writers, and performers, Eric Maisel, Ph.D. discusses each stage of creation-wishing, choosing, starting, working, completing, selling--and the anxieties particular to each. He then shows how these inhibiting tensions can be turned to artistic advantages, how truth and beauty arrive in the work of art precisely because, and only when, anxiety has been understood, embraced, and resolved. Fearless Creating guides the reader, whether an experienced artist or someone just starting out, past the pitfalls that appear in each stage of the process. By following Dr. Maisel's exercises related both to the world at hand and the ongoing struggles of artistic life, readers will emerge from this book with a completed work of art and a new perspective on their potential to be a fearless creator.

Mastering Creative Anxiety

Author: Eric Maisel
Publisher: New World Library
ISBN: 157731932X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 275

Book Description
In his decades as a psychotherapist and creativity coach, Eric Maisel has found a common thread behind what often gets labeled "writer's block," "procrastination," or "stage fright." It's the particular anxiety that, paradoxically, keeps creators from doing, completing, or sharing the work they are driven toward. This "creative anxiety" can take the form of avoiding the work, declaring it not good enough, or failing to market it -- and it can cripple creators for decades, even lifetimes. But Maisel has learned what sets successful creators apart. He shares these strategies here, including artist-specific stress management; how to work despite bruised egos, day jobs, and other inevitable frustrations; and what not to do to deal with anxiety. Implementing these 24 lessons replaces the pain of not creating with the profound rewards of free artistic self-expression. * Practical insights and proven techniques for overcoming the challenges and fears that plague creators of every kind * Teaching tales that convey effective approaches to creating fearlessly and abundantly

The Art of the Book Proposal

Author: Eric Maisel
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440650454
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
Here is an expert's guide through the elements of a nonfiction book proposal, including the outline, chapter summaries, marketing/publicity, book and chapter titles, and more. Filled with exercises designed to help a writer conceive and create a desirable proposal, and checklists to keep track of the project's progress, The Art of the Book Proposal provides the framework on which to build a great idea, as well as intelligent, empathetic instruction on how to produce a proposal that will capture the interest of an agent or editor. While most how-to writing books focus only on the nuts and bolts of putting a proposal together, Maisel, considered by many to be America's foremost expert on the psychological side of the creative process, also helps the writer overcome mental barriers to producing the best work possible. Using a holistic approach to the sometimes unglamorous work of designing a proposal, his guide enables a writer to transform an idea into a book.

Rethinking Depression

Author: Eric Maisel
Publisher: New World Library
ISBN: 1608680207
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 250

Book Description
Eric Maisel invites depression sufferers and their service providers to consider whether human sadness has been monetised into the disease of depression and asks readers to consider the personal implications of this 50 year cultural shift from human problem to medical ailment.

Affirmations for Artists

Author: Eric Maisel
Publisher: TarcherPerigee
ISBN: 9780874778397
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
Meditations and guidance for creative and performing artists and the creative spirit in each of us, to provide self-help and inspiration. To create is to take serious risks. An understanding of the affirmation process is an invaluable resource for the creative risk-taker. In Affirmations for Artists, Eric Maisel provides keen insight into the challenges to create life and the solutions that bring joy and success. The descriptions of artists’ issues that this book contains, and the affirmations and quotations it offers in response to them, will help you become a stauncher, wiser, and more loving friend to your own creative nature.

Making Your Creative Mark

Author: Eric Maisel
Publisher: New World Library
ISBN: 1608681637
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 271

Book Description
Eric Maisel’s prolific, multifaceted career is a testament to his profound understanding of what it takes to live out one’s creative ambitions. A therapist who is also a bestselling author, coach (and coach trainer), columnist for Professional Artist magazine, and featured blogger for Psychology Today and the Huffington Post, Maisel is an expert on all that blocks the creative. In Making Your Creative Mark, Maisel distills his decades of coaching, teaching, listening, and creating into nine keys, including Passion, Confidence, Empathy, Stress, and Relationship. Each key’s lesson helps creators implement real solutions to their individual challenges. Whether they are writers, painters, actors, composers, or craftspeople, readers will learn to “unlock” what has kept them from beginning, continuing, completing — and succeeding.

Redesign Your Mind

Author: Eric Maisel
Publisher: Mango Media
ISBN: 1642505129
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 206

Book Description
“Applying the metaphor of a complete ‘home rehab’ to the mind, [Redesign Your Mind] presents an engaging series of visualization techniques.” —Publishers Weekly Your mind is like a room that is yours to redesign—a space that you can declutter, air out, furnish, decorate, and turn into a truly congenial place. Today, cognitive-behavioral therapy and CBT techniques are the tools that help us do this. In this book, Dr. Eric Maisel, Ph.D. moves cognitive change a giant step forward by describing the room that is your mind and how human consciousness is experienced there. Packed with visualization exercises, this accessible guide makes redesigning your mind and changing what—and how—you think easy and simple, an upgrade to the CBT method that lets you promote cognitive growth, healing, and change. · Increase your creativity · Reduce your anxiety · Rid yourself of chronic depression · Recover from addiction · Heal from past trauma · Stop negativity, boredom, and self-sabotage · Overcome procrastination · Achieve emotional wellbeing