Can Creativity in Conditions of War Trauma be a Danger to Personal Development?
Mladen Kneževicć, Marija Ovsenik
Human Relations · 2002 · Volume 55 · Issue 9
DOI: 10.1177/0018726702055009023
Abstract
This research study is a result of joint activities carried out by practitioners and scientists with an aim of improving the situation of children affected by the war in the town of Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina, which was divided into two parts and governed by two ethnic communities, Bosnians and Croats. The research shows that the more creative children often reacted negatively to psycho-traumatic events; this type of ‘oppositionality’ was an unacceptable form of reaction in their social community, and as a result, they were less able to develop their creative potential.
Keywords
creativity, ethnic communities, psycho-trauma, traumatic events
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