art and sexual taboos,career development products,male nudity versus female nudity
Abelina Galustian says of her painting Womansword [left, detail] that she is “commenting on the absurdity of gender roles in Orientalist paintings. My attempt is to sound an alarm to women around the world and let men see a different perspective of sexist issues.” [From artist [...]

autonomy and creativity,creativity and work,gifted adult personality,gifted and talented book
Being self-directed and self-defined are traits of creatively talented people, but there may often be internal and external influences that compromise that autonomy.
Mary-Elaine Jacobsen [author of The Gifted Adult] notes in her article Giftedness in the Workplace that gifted adults “may fail to respect their own [...]

David Milch on active imagination,successful writing,ego and imagination,developing creativity
David Milch – creator, writer, and producer of the HBO series “Deadwood” – commented in an interview about “trusting the process of the active imagination. It entails suppression of the Ego. I am able to develop exercises where I can suppress that quickly. I am able to [...]