Charlotte L. Doyle, psychology professor at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, is an avid explorer of the creative process. She has written articles and book chapters on her research, on the educational implications of creativity findings, and on theoretical considerations such as how the features of flow challenge theories of cognition. She is also author of several textbooks including Explorations in Psychology and, to her surprise, seven picture books for children.

Acknowledgments Illustration Permissions and Credits Introduction Part I: Classic Case Studies of Creative Episodes: Reflections and Extensions 1. How Poincaré inspired psychologists: Experiences in a mathematics contest2. Darwin's path to evolution theory: Changing frameworks and feelings 3. Picasso's Guernica: The creative process in art as visual thinking Part II: Creating as Navigating Among Different Psychological Worlds 4. Creating novels and short stories: The writing realm and the fiction world 5. Acting for the stage: How three actors created their roles Part III: Focus on Intuition and Embodied Creating 6. Music by Biscardi: Letting the hands go someplace 7. Sendak's search: Finding and taming the Wild Things Part IV: Writers as Phenomenologists: Discoveries from Exploring the Inner Landscape 8. Tolstoy and Anna Karenina: From condemnation to understanding9. Woolf's To the Lighthouse: Revelations from streams of consciousness Part V: Creating Collaborations in Science and Art 10. Blackburn and company: Unraveling the telomere mysteries11. Ron Carter's nonet: Inventing and developing a new sound Epilogue Index