Andreas Steck – författare

An up-to-date book about art through the lens of neuroscience and psychology.  In Creativity & Art, Andreas and Barbara Steck use an interdisciplinary approach to discuss creative processes from a neuroscientific and psychoanalytic perspective. By referring to the current knowledge of brain sciences, the authors explore the understanding of the neural bases innate to the creation of art. Beginning with historical aspects of aesthetic experience and creation in ancient and modern times, the authors go on to present numerous artists in various fields, with an emphasis on how their subjective lived experiences are expressed and reflected in their artwork. Finally, the Stecks describe the building blocks of creativity in early childhood development discuss the psychoanalytic understanding of human aesthetic experience and creativity. Insightful and thought-provoking, Creativity & Art examines art through the lens of neuroscience and psychology.

Examining the conscious and unconscious emotional forces that drive us, Questioning Human Nature offers new insights into human interactions and the challenges we face in an increasingly turbulent world.Our time is marked by looming global crises: war, climate change, pandemics, migration, poverty, and hunger. Thanks to the extraordinary development of the human forebrain, we possess remarkable cognitive abilities—skills, achievements, and seemingly unlimited capacities for problem-solving and creative thinking. And yet, these unprecedented scientific advances have not prevented wars, aggression, or social inequality. Humanity appears unable to learn from the lessons of its own history. Why do abuses and conflicts keep recurring? In this book, the authors explore this fundamental question through an interdisciplinary lens. While the rational brain has made extraordinary progress, the emotional brain has evolved far less and continues to shape human behavior—particularly in relation to aggression, violence, and destructiveness.

Recent advances in the understanding of brain functions are reviewed in this text, along with how neurobiological research and brain imaging contributes to identifying and treating neurologic and psychiatric disorders. Chapters focus on consciousness, memory, emotions, language, communication, trauma, pain and resilience, while exploring how stressful events impact mental health and interrupt the continuity of one's sense of self. Clinical vignettes of patients with neurological and mental affections reveal coping and grieving processes in dreams and narratives. This presentation of clinical experience with neuro-scientific evidence provides neurologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists and psychologists with a coherent picture of the brain-mind relationship.