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A gifted psychiatrist and her husband, a premier hand surgeon, offer an insightful and innovative mind-body plan to combat depression and anxiety by exploring your creative potential.Husband-and-wife physicians Carrie and Alton Barron present a deeply satisfying and highly achievable five-part plan to unleash happiness and alleviate depression and anxiety by tapping into your creative self. Carrie and Alton Barron draw upon the latest psychological research, a combined forty years of medical practice, and personal experience to demonstrate how creative action is integral to long-term happiness and well-being. The Five-Part Prescription for the Creativity Cure—Insight, Movement, Mind Rest, Your Own Two Hands, and Mind Shift—leads the way to a more meaningful, fulfilling life by simultaneously developing self-understanding and self-expression. With the Barrons’ detailed tools and strategies for cultivating creative outlets, overcoming unconscious fears and barriers to happiness, and linking internal thought to external action, you can create the mindset and habits necessary for happiness and positive change.
The perfect self-help book for our handmade, homemade, crafting culture, The Creativity Cure has a simple yet profoundly inspirational message: that you can find the authentic, contented life you crave by taking happiness into your own two hands.
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1)“Aninvaluable action guide to creating opportunities for greater joy, purpose, andmeaning through self-expression.”
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"The Creativity Cure is a most welcome addition to the literature on personal and relationship transformation. From working with several thousand couples over the years, Kathlyn and I have become strong proponents of creativity for the transformation of relationships. The same is true for personal transformation: creativity is often the missing piece, the absence of which has been sending distress signals in the form of anxiety and depression. The Drs. Barron have done a marvelous job in bringing this often-hidden factor to light. I highly recommend that you read this book."
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"The Creativity Cure rocks!
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“The Barrons have outlined a clear and achieveable step-by-step process that allows anyone to not only heal but to unlock our individual road map for a powerful, happy and fulfilling life."
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"The Creativity Cure is a most welcome addition to the literature on personal and relationship transformation. From working with several thousand couples over the years, Kathlyn and I have become strong proponents of creativity for the transformation of relationships. The same is true for personal transformation: creativity is often the missing piece, the absence of which has been sending distress signals in the form of anxiety and depression. The Drs. Barron have done a marvelous job in bringing this often-hidden factor to light. I highly recommend that you read this book." Gay Hendricks, Ph.D., author of Conscious Living and coauthor with Dr. Kathlyn Hendricks, of Conscious Loving
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"The Creativity Cure rocks!
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“The Barrons have outlined a clear and achieveable step-by-step process that allows anyone to not only heal but to unlock our individual road map for a powerful, happy and fulfilling life." Bob Woodruff, ABC Correspondent and author of In an Instant
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"The Creativity Cure rocks!
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"The Creativity Cure rocks!
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"The Creativity Cure rocks!
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"The Creativity Cure rocks! The Barrons have written a prescription for happiness. Follow the doctors' orders and you can't help but feel better."
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A Do-It-Yourself Prescription for Happiness
In their insightful book, wife-and-husband physicians Carrie and Alton Barron present an innovative, highly achievable five-part plan to unleash happiness and alleviate depression and anxiety by tapping into creative potential.
A gifted psychiatrist and a premier hand surgeon, Carrie and Alton Barron draw upon the latest psychological research, a combined forty years of medical practice, and personal experience to demonstrate how creative action is integral to long-term happiness and well-being. The Five-Part Prescription for the Creativity Cure Insight, Movement, Mind Rest, Your Own Two Hands, and Mind Shift leads the way to a more meaningful, fulfilling life by simultaneously developing self-understanding and self-expression. With the Barrons detailed tools and strategies for cultivating creative outlets, overcoming unconscious fears and barriers to happiness, and linking internal thought to external action, readers will build the mind-set and habits necessary for happiness and positive change. They will experience and learn how to sustain the deep satisfaction that accompanies creating something by hand.
The perfect self-help book for our handmade, homemade, crafting culture, The Creativity Cure has a simple yet profoundly inspirational message: that you can find the authentic, contented life you crave by taking happiness into your own two hands."
Synopsis
A gifted psychiatrist and a premier hand surgeon offer an insightful and innovative mind-body plan to combat depression and anxiety by exploring your creative potential.Husband-and-wife physicians Carrie and Alton Barron present a deeply satisfying and highly achievable five-part plan to unleash happiness and alleviate depression and anxiety by tapping into your creative self. Carrie and Alton Barron draw upon the latest psychological research, a combined forty years of medical practice, and personal experience to demonstrate how creative action is integral to long-term happiness and well-being. The Five-Part Prescription for the Creativity Cure—Insight, Movement, Mind Rest, Your Own Two Hands, and Mind Shift—leads the way to a more meaningful, fulfilling life by simultaneously developing self-understanding and self-expression. With the Barrons’ detailed tools and strategies for cultivating creative outlets, overcoming unconscious fears and barriers to happiness, and linking internal thought to external action, you can create the mindset and habits necessary for happiness and positive change.
The perfect self-help book for our handmade, homemade, crafting culture, The Creativity Cure has a simple yet profoundly inspirational message: that you can find the authentic, contented life you crave by taking happiness into your own two hands.
Synopsis
A gifted psychiatrist and her husband, a premier hand surgeon, offer an insightful and innovative mind-body plan to combat depression and anxiety by exploring your creative potential.Husband-and-wife physicians Carrie and Alton Barron present a deeply satisfying and highly achievable five-part plan to unleash happiness and alleviate depression and anxiety by tapping into your creative self. Carrie and Alton Barron draw upon the latest psychological research, a combined forty years of medical practice, and personal experience to demonstrate how creative action is integral to long-term happiness and well-being. The Five-Part Prescription for the Creativity Cure—Insight, Movement, Mind Rest, Your Own Two Hands, and Mind Shift—leads the way to a more meaningful, fulfilling life by simultaneously developing self-understanding and self-expression. With the Barrons’ detailed tools and strategies for cultivating creative outlets, overcoming unconscious fears and barriers to happiness, and linking internal thought to external action, you can create the mindset and habits necessary for happiness and positive change.
The perfect self-help book for our handmade, homemade, crafting culture, The Creativity Cure has a simple yet profoundly inspirational message: that you can find the authentic, contented life you crave by taking happiness into your own two hands.
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A Five-Part Plan to Build Happiness and Alleviate Stress
For the past three decades, wife-and-husband physicians Carrie and Alton Barron have channeled creativity to improve their own lives and the lives of their patients. Their approaches were different—Carrie utilized writing and meditation, and Alton emphasized exercise and physical exploration—but their conclusions were the same. Creative action leads to long-term happiness and well-being. With the Barrons’ detailed tools and strategies for cultivating creative outlets, overcoming unconscious barriers to happiness, and linking thought to action, readers will build the mind-set and habits necessary for positive change and fulfillment.
The perfect self-help book for our do-it-yourself culture, The Creativity Cure has a simple yet profoundly inspirational message: that you can find the authentic, contented life you crave by taking happiness into your own two hands.
About the Author
Dr. Grace Caroline (Carrie) Barron is a board certified psychiatrist/psychoanalyst on the faculty of the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and at the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center where she teaches writing to clinicians and psychotherapy to psychiatry residents in training. She has a private practice in New York City. She has published in peer-reviewed journals, won several academic awards, and presented original works on creativity and psychoanalysis at national meetings of the American Psychoanalytic Association and local meetings. She is a member of the American Psychiatric Association, The American Psychoanalytic Association, and the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine. For twenty years she was a classical singer and performer. Dr. Barron created and conducted a series of panels on The Creative Process for the RiverArts Council in Westchester County, New York. Dr. Alton Barron is a board certified orthopedic surgeon who specializes in the problems of the shoulder, elbow, and hand. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic surgeons and the American Society for Surgery of the Hand as well as the American Shoulder and Elbow Society. He is currently the Vice President of the New York Society for Surgery of the Hand. He is in an academic private practice in New York City. He has been the treating orthopaedic surgeon for the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and Metropolitan Opera for more than a decade, and he has treated many other professional artists and musicians. He has also been a team doctor for Fordham University athletics for many years. A faculty member of Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, he teaches and speaks regularly at national meetings. Dr. Barron is a consultant for CBS and has appeared on the CBS Early Show several times. He has also written for The New York Times, was listed in The New York Times Magazine as one of the 2009 Super Docs, and has published extensively in multiple peer-reviewed journals. He is an accomplished athlete and marathon runner.