CHAPTER I. 

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CREATIVITY AND THE CREATIVE WRITER

Piirto Pyramid framework

What is Creativity?, How this Book Fits Within the Field of Creativity Studies, The Place of Expertise in Creativity Studies, Where Literature and Psychology Meet, The Influence of Freudian Psychology on Literature and Literary People, Archetypal Psychology and Literature, Literature and Other Branches of Psychology, The Research Framework:, The Piirto Pyramid of Talent Development, 1. The Genetic, 2. The Emotional,  3. The Cognitive, 4. Talent in Domains, 5. The Vocational: The Notion of a "Calling", Five Environmental "suns" of home, school, community & culture, gender, and chance, The Writer and Psychology

CHAPTER 2:

 THE PERSONALITIES OF CREATIVE WRITERS

Independent Nonconformers, JOHN LENNON’S REPORT CARD, Drive/ resiliency, Passion that drives, Courage / Risk-taking, Androgyny, Introversion, Intensity or Overexcitability, Intellectual intensity, Sensual intensity, Imaginational intensity, Psychomotor intensity, Emotional intensity, Fig. 2.1: The Overexcitability Questionnaire (OEQ) of Three Male Creative Writers, Naiveté, Intuition and Perception, Energy transmitted into productivity

CHAPTER 3: 

MORE PERSONALITY ATTRIBUTES OF WRITERS

Ambition / Envy, Concern with Philosophical Issues: Aesthetics and Ethics, Frankness often expressed in political or social activism, Psychopathology, Figure 3.1: Poets and Writers Suffering from Depression or Manic-Depression, Empathy, A Sense of Humor, What Personality Tests Show, The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

CHAPTER 4: 

THE CREATIVE PROCESS IN WRITERS

Current Psychological Theories of the Creative Process, Cognitive Psychology: Mental Leaps, Industrial Psychology: The CPS Model, Psychoanalytic Theory: Janusian and Homospatial, Social Psychological Theories: The Power of Suggestion, Rituals, Rituals of Exercise, The Quest for Silence, Inspiration, The Visitation of the Muse, The Inspiration of Nature, Inspiration through Substances, Inspiration by Works of Art and Music, Inspiration from Dreams, The Inspiration of Novel Surroundings: Travel, Imagination, The Need for Solitude, Flow, Fasting, Meditation, Improvisation, Differences Between Novelists’ and Poets’ Creative Processes, The Use of Self-help Books

CHAPTER 5: 

THE WRITTEN PRODUCT AND WHAT TO DO WITH IT

Should a Creative Writer Get a Degree in Creative Writing?, Choosing a Writing Teacher, "Day Jobs of Major Literary Award Winners",The Literary Agent, Literary Agent Do’s and Don’t’s, Where to Publish: Contests, Where to Publish: Self-Publishing and Small Press Publishing Where to Publish: Look for Calls for Manuscripts, After It Is Published: Marketing, After It Is Written: Protecting Your Work, After You’re Published: Plagiarism, After You’re Published: Reviews

Subjects for This Study, Method,  Tables 6.1& 6.2: "In Their Own Words": Quotes from Writers

CHAPTER 6 : 

THE SUN OF HOME

Theme 1. Unconventional Families and Family Traumas

Theme 2. Predictive Behavior of Extensive Early Reading

Theme 3: Predictive Behavior of Early Publication and Interest in Writing

Theme 4: Incidence of Depression And/or Self-Destructive Acts

Theme 5: Being in an Occupation Different from Their Parents

Theme 6: Feeling of Marginalization or Being an Outsider

Theme 7: Late Career Recognition

Theme 8: High Academic Achievement and Many Writing Awards

Theme 9: Nurturing of Talents by Both Male and Female Teachers and Mentors

Theme 10: Attendance at Prestigious Colleges, Majoring in English Literature but Without Attaining the Ph.D.

Theme 11: Residence in New York City

Theme 12: Chance: The Accident of Place of Birth and of Ethnicity Determines Subject Matter

Theme 13: Women: Conflict with combining motherhood and careers in writing; of Parenthood

Theme 14: Societal Gender Expectations Incongruent with Their Essential Personalities

Theme 15: History of divorce more prevalent in women

Theme 16: Military Service More Prevalent in Men.