Douglas Eby, M.A./Psychology, is a writer, researcher and online publisher with a focus on psychology, emotional health and personal growth topics especially related to creative, multitalented, highly sensitive, neurodivergent and high ability/gifted people.
Main site: The Creative Mind
Includes sections on mental/emotional health; Actors and performers; Writers and writing, and more.
Creative Mind Newsletter & Podcast
Some of my related sites / sections:
Talent Development Resources – Where you are viewing this.
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Contact : use form.
My books:
Developing Multiple Talents: The personal side of creative expression.
“Part book about creativity, part compendium of useful tidbits, quotations and research, and part annotated bibliography, this is a wildly useful and highly entertaining resource.” – Stephanie S. Tolan, writer and consultant on the gifted.“
Packed full of insights and resources for the creative life, this book offers new ways to thrive as a creative person.” – Cynthia Morris, Creativity Coach
See excerpts, reviews & more: Developing Multiple Talents – the book
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The Creative Mind: Identity and Confidence
The Creative Mind series explores creative talents and creative expression in terms of personal development and psychology. Part One in the series is a focus on identity and confidence: topics that impact how motivated people will be to pursue creative ideas.
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Being Highly Sensitive and Creative
Psychologists and neuroscience researchers are finding more confirmation for this trait of sensory processing sensitivity, present in at least fifteen percent of us.
For many people it relates to creative ability.
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Also see my Amazon.com Author Page.
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Facebook page: The Creative Mind
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Membership / support [current or previous] :
The International Society for Mental Health Online
International Society for Gifted Adults and Advocates
SENG Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted
American Psychological Association [APA] Division Ten – Psychology and the Arts
Member [inactive]: Mensa
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Some articles by Douglas Eby on other sites : [old list – not updated]
See quotes from my article ‘Actors and Addiction’ in the ABC News article When Really Successful People Crack, Andrea Canning, May 10, 2007
EzineArticles.com Multiple older articles available for publication
CreativityPortal.com – multiple articles
Creativity at work site:Effort and Flow
Cream: The Creative Medium – article: Ego and Creativity
IdeaMarketers.com – multiple articles
Perspectives / Mental Help Net – Depression, Women and Creativity
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Previous credits as writer / interviewer :
Author: creativity columns: interviews with artists, writers, entrepreneurs, psychologists & others;
articles on psychological & social issues related to giftedness, creativity and talent development;
film production articles; interviews with filmmakers: actors, screenwriters, producers, directors & others
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Partial list of publication credits:
AMC / American Movie Classics: Susan Sarandon interview
America Online: Gifted Women Forum [approx. 1997-8]
Artist’s Sketchbook: “Throw Caution to the Wind” (Sept. 2002)
BeingZine: articles on gifted women
Blue Jean Magazine: “A Young Voice in Hollywood – Jena Malone”
Body Mind Spirit : film and video reviews 1998
Business Spirit Journal: “Awareness in the Workplace”
California Therapist: “Bad Seed – Antecedents of Teen Violence” (July/Aug 1990)
Cinefantastique : film production articles – interviews with filmmakers (1994 to 2000; see listing below)
The Clock – commentary on the Display, HDTV & Vr Industries: “What Venture Capitalists Are Looking For”
CreativePlanet.com – interview articles related to visual effects work in film & TV [most articles in VFXPro area]
articles include: “Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box” [IMAX 3D film project]; Imaginary Forces’ work on “Titus”
Creativity at Work online: “Effort and Flow”
CulturalCool.com [teen website]: article on TV series “Get Real”;
interviews: musician Chris Envy; actors: Nicki Aycox; Michelle Williams (“Dawson’s Creek”);
Martin Starr (“Freaks & Geeks”); profiles: musicians Charlotte Church; Shannon Curfman
GoLiveWithLynda.com [sponsored by Adobe] : multiple interviews with website designers
Health Freedom News: cover article: interview with Sally Kirkland
High Performance – Art in the Public Interest:
“Professional Jaywalker: Richard Posner on Crossing from the Studio to Public Art” (Fall 1996)
Hollywood Reporter: Special Issues – Women in Entertainment :
1992: article “A Few More Good Women” plus interviews with women craft specialists
1993: interviews with studio executives, agents
Investor’s Business Daily: “Leaders & Success”: profiles of film pioneer William Fox; photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt
LA Girl Guide: interview with Sally Kirkland
LA Village View: “Women in Film: Identity and Power”
The Medium Webzine “Ego and Creativity”
MENSA BULLETIN: “Gifted Women: Identity and Fulfillment”
Moondance: Celebrating Creative Women: “Ego & Creativity”
MOXIE Magazine: misc. brief quotes about role models
New Perspectives – A Journal of Conscious Living: [Entertainment Editor]
Aug/Sep 1996: interview with Sally Kirkland; film/video reviews and book reviews;
interview with Dr. Edgar Mitchell
Spring, 1997: cover article: Extraterrestrials and Entertainment; interviews; film reviews;
articles: “Web Thinking”, “Movies as therapy”.
Winter, 1998: article: “Connecting Point” — Positive Talk Radio” ; movie reviews
Winter, 1999: articles: “Balancing Ego and Creativity”; “Patch Adams and the Gesundheit Institute”
movie reviews: The Altruists; Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life; Clockwatchers; Wild Man Blues
Autumn, 1999: movie reviews: “Pleasantville”; “The Matrix”; “eXistenZ” ; several book reviews
Online Noetic Network article: “Giftedness and Women”
Perspectives: “Depression, women, and creativity”
POST: “Deep Space Nine” — on computer graphics design & technology
PREMIERE Online: interviews with director, and Heather Graham about film “Lost in Space”
Profit Magazine: interview features with clothing designer Gelila; clothing / home furnishing designer Kathy Ireland
QUAKE: “Cause and Effect”: social projects of young celebrity actors
The Rock – online magazine for writers: “Eccentricity And Creativity”
salonDAarte: article: “Ego and Creativity”
Science of Mind magazine:
cover profile: Oprah [Jan. 2002]; The Power of Partnership: interview with Riane Eisler [Mar. 2002]
Self-Help Magazine: “Depression, Women and Creativity”
ShesGotItTogether.com website: Women & Creativity Column
SOMA – Left Coast Culture: interview with Dolph Lundgren
Wench magazine: interview with Elisa Rothstein
Whole Life Times: interview with Sally Kirkland
WHOOSH (publication of International Association of Xena Studies) “Women and Violence On Screen”
Women.Com /Women’s Wire: “Assets and Limitations” – about occupational therapist
Women’s InSite: articles: Women and Talent: Identity and Fulfillment; Women and Weapons On Screen; Eccentrics
WORLD – CLASS: (associate editor): interview articles with artists, musicians, creativity consultant
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Filmmaker interviews by Douglas Eby [mostly for Cinefantastique magazine]
directors:
Allison Anders Paul Anderson Rob Bowman Frank Darabont Jan De Bont Ernest Dickerson
David Dryer Andrew Fleming Michael Gibson Michael Hoffman Tom Holland Stephen Hopkins
Ron Howard Sam Irvin Kenneth Johnson Mark Jones Neil Jordan Jon Kroll Mimi Leder
Brett Leonard Scott Levy Luis Llosa Bill Malone Ron Maxwell Paolo Mazzucato Andrew Niccol
Amos Poe Albert Pyun Rand Ravich Dempsey Rice Jay Roach Chris Roberts Andy Ruben
Ridley Scott Leslie Smith Stephen Sommers Richard Taylor
Julie Taymor Caroline Thompson Ron Underwood Gus Van Sant Paul Verhoeven & others
producers:
Gil Adler Moustapha Akkad Joan Bradshaw David Brown Donna Burkons Kevin Burns
Chris Carter Terry Castle Roger Corman Sean Daniel Dino De Laurentiis Ann Druyan Linda Dryer
Sara Duvall Larry Estes Anne Marie Gillan Jim Jacks Tom Jacobson Larry Kasanoff Joanna Lee
Sherry McKenna Marta Mobley Rebecca Pollack Elisa Rothstein Lata Ryan Nina Sadowsky
Shannon Silverman Steve Starkey Doug Wick Colin Wilson Richard Zanuck & others
screenwriters:
Diane Frolov Pierce Gardner Michael Goldenberg Akiva Goldsman Matt Greenberg Karey Kirkpatrick Anne Meredith Craig J. Nevius Michael Okuda Mark Protosevich Andrew Schneider Alex Simon Frank Spotnitz
Betsy Stahl Michael Tolkin Linda Woolverton Larry Wilson Steven Zaillian & others
visual effects designers:
Mat Beck Howard Berger Walt Conti Charles Gibson Michael Gibson
Carlos Huante Daniel Jeannette Jim Mitchell Phil Tippett Alison Savitch & others
makeup effects designers: Rick Baker Robert Hall Deborah Larsen
production designers: Michael Corenblith Ed Verreaux
studio executives: Elizabeth Manne Ruth Vitale
talent agents: Joni Evans Elaine Goldsmith Susan Smith
cinematographer: Brianne Murphy
actors:
Ginger Lynn Allen Gillian Anderson Michael J. Anderson Starr Andreeff Adam Arkin Alison Armitage
Linden Ashby Nicki Aycox Christine Baranski Lee Anne Beaman Amanda Bearse Mayim Bialik Richard Biggs
Tom Braidwood Neve Campbell Lacey Chabert Patricia Clarkson James Cromwell Jamie Lee Curtis
William B. Davis Taye Diggs David Duchovny Michael Clarke Duncan Jodie Foster Diana Frank Brendan Fraser
Heather Graham Max Grodenchik Dean Haglund Rodger Halston Mark Hamill Adam Hann-Byrd
Melora Hardin Cristi Harris Josh Hartnett Bruce Harwood Anne Heche William Hurt
Doug Hutchison Alex Hyde-White Famke Janssen Regina King Sally Kirkland Vladimir Kulich
Martin Landau Ali Larter Téa Leoni Emile Levisetti Bai Ling Jennifer Lopez Dolph Lundgren
Jennifer MacDonald Jena Malone Kellie Martin Athena Massey Malcolm McDowell Alex Meneses
Terry Moore Leslie Nielsen Gary Oldman Jodi Lyn O’Keefe Robert O’Reilly Gretchen Palmer Scott Patterson
Jada PinkettScott Plank Sue Price David Rasche John Rhys-Davies Sam Rockwell Kate Rodger
Mimi Rogers Sherrie Rose Jennifer Rubin Bill Sadler Susan Sarandon John Savage Wendy Schaal
Jocelyn Seagrave Joan Severance Melanie Shatner Tom Skerritt Talisa Soto Nancy Stephens Stella Stevens
Jill St. John Don Stroud Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Amanda Tapping Terri Treas Rachel True
Robin Tunney Kim Ulrich Blair Valk Jon Voight Doug Wert Michelle Williams Bridgette Wilson
Reese Witherspoon Lea Anne Wolfe Barbara Alyn Woods James Woods Kari Wuhrer & others
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Additional interviews :
Patch Adams, M.D. the “Clown Doctor” – a film on his life is in production, starring Robin Williams
Aeone (pronounced “ay-own”) singer/songwriter: multiple albums; music for “The Mists of Avalon” tv movie etc
Bronwen Aker web developer; former Planetarium Lecturer at Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles
Andrea Ashworth author of memoir “Once in a House on Fire”
Lynne Azpeitia – therapist for “multitalented, creative and artistic high-achieving persons”
Paula Caplan professor of psychiatry; author: “They Say You’re Crazy…”
Pat Devin High Priestess in Covenant of the Goddess, talking about Wicca and movies
Stephen A. Diamond, Ph.D. – forensic psychologist and referral therapist to the Screen Actors Guild
Riane Eisler author: The Chalice and the Blade; The Power of Partnership
Marie Friedel Founder &Director, National Foundation for Gifted and Creative Children.
Megan Gaiser president and executive producer of HerInteractive.com, publisher of girl games
Mary Rodgers Guettel chairman of the board, the Juilliard School; composer: “Once Upon a Mattress”
Melora Hardinsinger/songwriter; actress
Jean Houston seminar leader; adviser; 16 books including “A Mythic Life”
Jane Hunt photographer – on portraiture for actors (e.g daughter Helen) and others
Kathy Ireland model; actress; apparel and furnishings designer; entrepreneur
Faye Kellerman novelist: “Jupiter’s Bones” etc
Father Ellwood Kieser founder: the Humanitas Prize
Viki King creativity consultant; seminar leader; author
Roxanne Klein teen entrepreneur: inventor of Sandy Candy
Joan Lauren photographer; author: “Portraits of Life, With Love”
Jennifer Lehman film acting teacher and consultant.
Sandra Tsing Loh writer, humorist, performer and radio program host
Bob Mackie fashion designer
Dr. Edgar Mitchell former astronaut; founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences
Marilyn Mosley Director of the Laurel Springs School (K-12), with many gifted students
Maureen Murdock therapist; teacher; author of “The Heroine’s Journey”
Pam Nelson Founder of Girl Press (“Girl Boss: Running the Show Like the Big Chicks” etc)
Kathleen Noble Professor; editor: “Remarkable Women: Perspectives on Female Talent Development”
Judith Orloff, MD Psychiatrist; integrates psychic abilities with traditional medicine; author: “Second Sight”.
Susan K. Perry, PhD author of “Writing In Flow: Keys to Enhanced Creativity”
Ashley Power teen artist, website entrepreneur
Linda Redford counselor, educational producer – uses Native American and Western psychology
Mary Rocamora – founder, director: The Rocamora School [awareness training classes for multi-talented adults]
Elisa Rothstein creator, producer: “Women: Stories of Passion”
Linda Seger script consultant, seminar leader, author of five books on screenwriting etc.
Annette Revel Sheely counselor at the Gifted Development Center
Marylou Kelly Streznewski Author of the book “Gifted Grownups: The Mixed Blessings of Extraordinary Potential”
Stephanie Tolan co-author: “Guiding the Gifted Child”; novelist; consultant to parents of highly gifted children
Patricia Nell Warren writer; novelist: “The Front Runner”; “Harlan’s Race” etc.
Corinne Whitaker digital artist
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> see interviews page for posted selections
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Contributing editor for two books:
Benjamin Shearer, Barbara Smith Shearer (Editors) Notable Women in the Physical Sciences “substantive biographical essays on 96 world and American women scientists who have made significant contributions to the physical sciences from antiquity to the present. The essays go beyond basic facts… bringing to life the women’s developmental influences, the obstacles they faced and overcame, and their efforts to contribute in their chosen professions in spite of sometimes overwhelming disapproval by the establishment.”
The Citizen Artist – 20 Years of Art in the Public Arena – interview with artist Richard Posner
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M.A. / Counseling Psychology – with training in CBT – Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Former member: American Psychological Association [APA] Division Ten – Psychology and the Arts
Residence: Southern California
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