The Van Gogh Blues

Author : Eric Maisel, PhD
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-22
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781608681938

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The Van Gogh Blues by Eric Maisel, PhD Pdf

Creative people will experience depression — that’s a given. It’s a given because they are regularly confronted by doubts about the meaningfulness of their efforts. Theirs is a kind of depression that does not respond to pharmaceutical treatment. What’s required is healing in the realm of meaning.In this groundbreaking book, Eric Maisel teaches creative people how to handle these recurrent crises of meaning and how to successfully manage the anxieties of the creative process. Using examples both from the lives of famous creators such as van Gogh and from his own creativity coaching practice, Maisel explains that despite their inevitable difficulties, creative people possess the ability to forge relationships, repair themselves, and find meaning in their work and their lives. Maisel presents a step-by-step plan to help creative people handle their special brand of depression and rediscover the reasons they are driven to create in the first place.

Author : Eric Maisel
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000-06-19
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781440629068

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The Creativity Book by Eric Maisel Pdf

Whatever you do, says Dr. Eric Maisel, creativity helps you do it better. Creativity encourages the artist to paint more frequently and authentically. It allows a busy executive to see her options more quickly, make changes more fluidly, and become more self-directing and confident. In this book, America's foremost expert on the psychological side of the creative process presents a complete one-year plan for increasing and unleashing your creativity. It includes two disucssions/exercises per week, and culminates in a guided project of your choice—from working on a current novel or symphony to planning a new home business or becoming a more effective supervisor.

Author : Eric Maisel
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004-05-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1585423343

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The Art of the Book Proposal by Eric Maisel Pdf

Here is an expert's guide through the elements of a nonfiction book proposal, including the outline, chapter summaries, marketing/publicity, book and chapter titles, and more. Filled with exercises designed to help a writer conceive and create a desirable proposal, and checklists to keep track of the project's progress, The Art of the Book Proposal provides the framework on which to build a great idea, as well as intelligent, empathetic instruction on how to produce a proposal that will capture the interest of an agent or editor. While most how-to writing books focus only on the nuts and bolts of putting a proposal together, Maisel, considered by many to be America's foremost expert on the psychological side of the creative process, also helps the writer overcome mental barriers to producing the best work possible. Using a holistic approach to the sometimes unglamorous work of designing a proposal, his guide enables a writer to transform an idea into a book.

Author : Eric Maisel
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781608680207

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Rethinking Depression by Eric Maisel Pdf

In a thought-provoking volume, the author critiques how the human condition has been monetized into the disease of depression and related “disorders” and offers a powerful new approach that updates the best ideas of modern psychology. Original.

Author : Eric Maisel
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781577318422

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The Atheist's Way by Eric Maisel Pdf

In The Atheist’s Way, Eric Maisel teaches you how to make rich personal meaning despite the absence of beneficent gods and the indifference of the universe to human concerns. Exploding the myth that there is any meaning to find or to seek, Dr. Maisel explains why the paradigm shift from seeking meaning to making meaning is this century’s most pressing intellectual goal.

Author : Deborah Heiligman
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781250109699

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Vincent and Theo by Deborah Heiligman Pdf

Printz Honor Book • YALSA Nonfiction Award Winner • Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Winner • SCBWI Golden Kite Winner • Cybils Senior High Nonfiction Award Winner From the author of National Book Award finalist Charles and Emma comes an incredible story of brotherly love. The deep and enduring friendship between Vincent and Theo Van Gogh shaped both brothers' lives. Confidant, champion, sympathizer, friend—Theo supported Vincent as he struggled to find his path in life. They shared everything, swapping stories of lovers and friends, successes and disappointments, dreams and ambitions. Meticulously researched, drawing on the 658 letters Vincent wrote to Theo during his lifetime, Deborah Heiligman weaves a tale of two lives intertwined and the extraordinary love of the Van Gogh brothers.

Author : Eric Maisel
Publisher : Mango Media
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781642505122

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Redesign Your Mind by Eric Maisel Pdf

“Applying the metaphor of a complete ‘home rehab’ to the mind, [Redesign Your Mind] presents an engaging series of visualization techniques.” —Publishers Weekly Your mind is like a room that is yours to redesign—a space that you can declutter, air out, furnish, decorate, and turn into a truly congenial place. Today, cognitive-behavioral therapy and CBT techniques are the tools that help us do this. In this book, Dr. Eric Maisel, Ph.D. moves cognitive change a giant step forward by describing the room that is your mind and how human consciousness is experienced there. Packed with visualization exercises, this accessible guide makes redesigning your mind and changing what—and how—you think easy and simple, an upgrade to the CBT method that lets you promote cognitive growth, healing, and change. · Increase your creativity · Reduce your anxiety · Rid yourself of chronic depression · Recover from addiction · Heal from past trauma · Stop negativity, boredom, and self-sabotage · Overcome procrastination · Achieve emotional wellbeing

Author : Eric Maisel
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-22
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781608681631

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Making Your Creative Mark by Eric Maisel Pdf

Eric Maisel’s prolific, multifaceted career is a testament to his profound understanding of what it takes to live out one’s creative ambitions. A therapist who is also a bestselling author, coach (and coach trainer), columnist for Professional Artist magazine, and featured blogger for Psychology Today and the Huffington Post, Maisel is an expert on all that blocks the creative. In Making Your Creative Mark, Maisel distills his decades of coaching, teaching, listening, and creating into nine keys, including Passion, Confidence, Empathy, Stress, and Relationship. Each key’s lesson helps creators implement real solutions to their individual challenges. Whether they are writers, painters, actors, composers, or craftspeople, readers will learn to “unlock” what has kept them from beginning, continuing, completing — and succeeding.

Author : Eric Maisel
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781608683062

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Life Purpose Boot Camp by Eric Maisel Pdf

A no-excuses, cut-to-the-chase program for defining, training for, and achieving your goals As life gets busier and more complicated we crave something larger and more meaningful than just ticking another item off our to-do list. In the past, we’ve looked to religion or outside guidance for that sense of purpose, but today fewer people are fulfilled by traditional approaches to meaning. Bestselling author, psychotherapist, and creativity coach Eric Maisel offers an alternative: an eight-week intensive that breaks through barriers and offers insights for living each day with purpose. Once you understand how meaning operates, how meaning and life purpose are related, and what concrete steps you can take toward fulfilling your purpose, you will never run out of meaning again. This program will develop self-awareness and self-confidence and give you what you need to fully live the best possible life.

Author : Vincent van Gogh,Sjraar van Heugten,Joachim Pissarro,Chris Stolwijk
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 087070737X

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Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night by Vincent van Gogh,Sjraar van Heugten,Joachim Pissarro,Chris Stolwijk Pdf

Co-published by Museum of Modern Art and the Van Gogh Museum in conjunction with the first exhibition to focus on Vincent van Gogh's depictions of nocturnal and twilight scenes, Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night examines the artist's night landscapes, interior scenes, and representations of the effects of both gaslight and natural light on their surroundings. It features over one hundred illustrations, including details of Van Gogh's iconic paintings and works by other artist important to the development of his style.

Author : Eric Maisel
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781608687060

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The Power of Daily Practice by Eric Maisel Pdf

Learn the #1 Secret of the Most Successful Pros: Daily Practice Eric Maisel knows from experience and observation that the single most crucial element of success for any endeavor is a regular, daily practice. Dr. Maisel, a preeminent creativity coach, therapist, and acclaimed author, shows how and why to implement a daily practice and addresses common challenges. His experience working with bestselling writers, entrepreneurs, musicians, actors, visual artists, recovering addicts, and rehabilitation patients shows as he outlines various ways to approach a daily practice and goes on to help you build a version of this important discipline that suits your life and goals. Real-world stories and practical examples will help you make measurable progress and build satisfaction in your most cherished pursuits.

Author : Steven Naifeh
Publisher : Random House
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780593356685

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Van Gogh and the Artists He Loved by Steven Naifeh Pdf

The compelling story of how Vincent van Gogh developed his audacious, iconic style by immersing himself in the work of others, featuring hundreds of paintings by Van Gogh as well as the artists who inspired him—from the New York Times bestselling co-author of Van Gogh: The Life “Important . . . inspires us to look at Van Gogh and his art afresh.”—Dr. Chris Stolwijk, general director, RKD–Netherlands Institute for Art History Vincent van Gogh’s paintings look utterly unique—his vivid palette and boldly interpretive portraits are unmistakably his. Yet however revolutionary his style may have been, it was actually built on a strong foundation of paintings by other artists, both his contemporaries and those who came before him. Now, drawing on Van Gogh’s own thoughtful and often profound comments about the painters he venerated, Steven Naifeh gives a gripping account of the artist’s deep engagement with their work. We see Van Gogh’s gradual discovery of the subjects he would make famous, from wheat fields to sunflowers. We watch him experimenting with the loose brushwork and bright colors used by Édouard Manet, studying the Pointillist dots used by Georges Seurat, and emulating the powerful depictions of the peasant farmers painted by Jean-François Millet, all vividly illustrated in nearly three hundred full-color images of works by Van Gogh and a variety of other major artists, including Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, positioned side by side. Thanks to the vast correspondence from Van Gogh to his beloved brother, Theo, Naifeh, a Pulitzer Prize winner, is able to reconstruct Van Gogh’s artistic world from within. Observed in eloquent prose that is as compelling as it is authoritative, Van Gogh and the Artists He Loved enables us to share the artist’s journey as he created his own daring, influential, and widely beloved body of work.

Author : Martin Bailey
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780711268180

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Studio of the South by Martin Bailey Pdf

Studio of the South tells the fascinating story of Van Gogh's time in Arles and the Yellow House.

Author : Robert Wallace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:315691915

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The World of Van Gogh, 1853-1890 by Robert Wallace Pdf

Author : Eric Maisel
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781577319320

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Mastering Creative Anxiety by Eric Maisel Pdf

In his decades as a psychotherapist and creativity coach, Eric Maisel has found a common thread behind what often gets labeled "writer's block," "procrastination," or "stage fright." It's the particular anxiety that, paradoxically, keeps creators from doing, completing, or sharing the work they are driven toward. This "creative anxiety" can take the form of avoiding the work, declaring it not good enough, or failing to market it -- and it can cripple creators for decades, even lifetimes. But Maisel has learned what sets successful creators apart. He shares these strategies here, including artist-specific stress management; how to work despite bruised egos, day jobs, and other inevitable frustrations; and what not to do to deal with anxiety. Implementing these 24 lessons replaces the pain of not creating with the profound rewards of free artistic self-expression. * Practical insights and proven techniques for overcoming the challenges and fears that plague creators of every kind * Teaching tales that convey effective approaches to creating fearlessly and abundantly