This book, together with The Index of Scientific Writings on Creativity: Creative Men and Women (published in 1974), provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary bibliographic coverage of the indexed world literature on the subject of creativity. The current work includes publications from 1566 A.D., the earliest catalogued writings of a philosophical nature, to present-day writings in the natural, administrative, social, and medical sciences, as well as those of more specifically psychological and psychoanalytic orientation.

The volume under review here contains 6823 citations listed in two columns on 222 pages. The format is aesthetically pleasant and the type, although small, is very clear and easy to read. The actual indexing of citations is arranged in eight major categories: Creativity—general; Creativity and Psychopathology; Developmental studies;