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The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain (.)
by Alice Weaver Flaherty
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- ISBN 10
- 0618230653
- ISBN 13
- 9780618230655
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Synopsis
What underlies the human ability, desire, and even compulsion to write? Alice Flaherty first explores the brain state called hypergraphia - the overwhelming desire to write - and the science behind its antithesis, writer's block. As a leading neurologist at a major research hospital, Flaherty writes from the front lines of brain research. Her voice, driven and surprisingly original, has its roots in her own experiences of hypergraphia, triggered by a postpartum mood disorder. Both qualifications lend power to Flaherty's riveting connection between the biology of human longing and the drive to communicate. The Midnight Disease charts exciting new territory concerning the roles of mind and body in the creative process. Flaherty - whose engagement with her patients and lifelong passion for literature enrich each page - argues for the importance of emotion in writing, illuminates the role that mood disorders play in the lives of many writers, and explores with profound insight the experience of being "visited by the muse." Her understanding of the role of the brain's temporal lobes and limbic system in the drive to write challenges the popular idea that creativity emerges solely from the right side of the brain. Finally, The Midnight Disease casts lights on the methods and madness of writers past and present, from Dostoevsky to Conrad, from Sylvia Plath to Stephen King. The Midnight Disease brings the very latest brain science to bear on the most compelling questions surrounding human creativity.
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- More Than Words Inc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOS-U-09b-00955
- Title
- The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain (.)
- Author
- Alice Weaver Flaherty
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Trade Cloth
- ISBN 10
- 0618230653
- ISBN 13
- 9780618230655
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston, Ma, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- 2004-01-06
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More Than Words empowers youth who are in foster care, court-involved, homeless or out of school to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business. MTW believes that when system-involved youth are challenged with authentic and increasing responsibilities in a business setting, and are given high expectations and a culture of support, they can and will address personal barriers to success, create concrete action plans for their lives, and become contributing members of society. More Than Words began as an online bookselling training program for youth in DCF custody in 2004 and opened its vibrant bookstore on Moody St in Waltham in 2005 and added its Starbucks coffee bar in 2008. MTW replicated its model in the South End of Boston in 2011, thereby doubling the number of youth served annually.
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