Nigel Leary reviews The Creating Brain by Nancy C. Andreasen, in Metapsychology:
Nancy C. Andreasen‘s book, The Creating Brain, is an interesting and insightful hypothesis about the nature of creativity. Her style is fluid and engaging, and she presents both her hypothesis and her research in equally effective and accessible ways. Andreasen is, to be sure, an interesting character: she started her career as a professor of Renaissance literature before going on to study as a neuroscientist, and she is now the Andrew H. Woods Chair of Psychiatry and Director of Mental Health Clinical Research Centre at the University of Iowa. This rare mixing of disciplines has left Andreasen in the somewhat extraordinary position to approach the notion of creativity from both a scientific perceptive (as a neuroscientist) and from an inherently creative background (as a literary professor). This meld not only gives Andreasen‘s book an engaging and readable style, but motivates her project, and provides her with a strong insight into both a) the creative process and b) the creative psyche.
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