THE MORNING SHOW
with
Patrick Timpone

Dr. Carrie Barron, MD

Author of The Creativity Cure

Creativity is more about how you think and less about what you do. A receptive mindset enables you to perceive the many things you can do. To be creative is to think differently about the familiar.

In The Creativity Cure: How To Build Happiness With Your Own Two Hands husband-and-wife physicians Carrie and Alton Barron draw upon the latest psychological research, a combined forty years of medical practice, and personal experience to reveal that creative action is integral to easing depression and anxiety and to fueling well being. The need to create—to produce something using our minds and hands—is fundamental. It connects us to our inner selves and to our environment and offers the deep satisfaction of accomplishment. But too often, in our technology driven, fast-paced society, we neglect this need. Creative processes facilitate insight and healing, connect our mental and physical selves, supply satisfaction and meaning and thereby enhance everyday life. You need not be an artist or writer or musician—though one never knows—to take creative action. The Creativity Cure can be used by anyone, no experience necessary. It is not about making art or being an artist, but rather mining the opportunities in your midst.

Carrie Barron, M.D., is a board-certified psychiatrist/psychoanalyst on the faculty of the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons who also 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 self-expression at national meetings of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Carrie has a blog on Psychology Today, is a Professor at en*theos: Academy for Optimal Living, teaches at the Hudson Valley Writers Center and Columbia and is on the Honorary Board of RiverArts.

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dr carrie barron on creativity and spiritual growth, february 23, 2016