Apart from one-on-one treatment, there are a number of cognitive-behavioral books for blocked writers — for example, "Break Writer's Block Now!," by Jerrold Mundis, a novelist.
He even named the new field with the title of his 1967 book, "Cognitive Psychology".
As Clay Shirky's new book Cognitive Surplus argues, the internet, computer games and mobile devices are creating a new generation of active producers and sharers of content, rather than passive consumers.
But in the new book "Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age," Clay Shirky, a leading theorist of the Internet and social media, argues that technology may offer the best hope for enthusiasts of intrinsic motivation.
Mr. Carr's original essay, published in The Atlantic — along with Clay Shirky's more optimistic account, which led to the book "Cognitive Surplus" — were intensely discussed throughout the Web when they first appeared as articles, and both books appear to be generating the same level of analysis and engagement in long form.
He published Emotional Schema Therapy in 2015 and his book, Cognitive Therapy Techniques Second Edition, will be published in the summer of 2017.
In his book Cognitive Surplus, author, consultant, and my former teacher, Clay Shirky, cites a research paper called "A Fine is a Price" by Uri Gneezy and Aldo Rustichini.
The major brain theory of the time was called the theory of the "inner (or interior) senses," the roots of which ran back to Aristotle (see Simon Kemp's book Cognitive Psychology in the Middle Ages, chapter 4).
If this sounds like an odd question for a professor of psychology at Harvard to ask in a serious book about cognitive science, there are dozens more where that came from.
In the 2011 book "The Cognitive Neuropsychiatry of Parkinson's Disease," Patrick McNamara, a neurologist at Boston University, writes, "PD, apparently, does not prevent creative work of a very high intellectual caliber".
