Creativity

Creativity & Imagery

Creativity and Imagery: Is The Experience of Hypnosis the Same as Imaging for Creative Persons?

                            Description
Theoretically, individual differences in creativity may be products of constitution and environment, and highly creative people may have an innate potential to create. In this regard, highly creative individuals may also tend to generate broader and more varied problem solving techniques in both general and domain specific arenas and have similar modal personality characteristics with wide variability in their psychological health and personal relationships. In addition, individual differences and socio-cultural nurturance may have an equally important role. From a psychophysiology perspective, high hypnotizability has been linked to somatization and as a mitigating factor in illness.

From a Western perspective, highly creative individuals tend to:
·    employ a great deal of time, energy, and passion into developing one major target of interest, which is typically
      their work
·    not be concerned with balancing personal and interpersonal interests and may allow these interests to recede into
    the background while in the
      process of pursuing their creative interests
·    autonomous, independent, and less interested in accommodating others
·    be neutral with respect to the needs of others when focused on creative endeavors
·    have strained interpersonal relationships and difficulties in psychological adjustment.

Building upon Dr. Hageman previous research and the above propositions, this study seeks to delineate whether highly creative individuals process hypnosis the same as a creative visualization task.