Description
This book is a compilation of essays on the dark side of creativity. The essays cover a variety of topics, such as crime and terrorism, mental health, deviant behavior, and counter-terrorism. The book provides a comprehensive look at the negative effects of creativity, and offers ways to prevent these effects from happening.
With few exceptions, scholarship on creativity has focused on its positive aspects while largely ignoring its dark side. This includes not only creativity deliberately aimed at hurting others, such as crime or terrorism, or at gaining unfair advantages, but also the accidental negative side effects of well-intentioned acts. This book brings together essays written by experts from various fields (psychology, criminal justice, sociology, engineering, education, history, and design) and with different interests (personality development, mental health, deviant behavior, law enforcement, and counter-terrorism) to illustrate the nature of negative creativity, examine its variants, call attention to its dangers, and draw conclusions about how to prevent it or protect society from its effects.
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