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Dr. Judith Schlesinger Co-Produces "Beautiful Love" With Paulinho Garcia

Source: Dr. Judith Schlesinger
February 12, 2014

After a dozen years of commenting on other people's music, and the executive producing of the acclaimed 2011 Trust by the Sean Smith Quartet, All About Jazz columnist and reviewer Dr. Judith Schlesinger is once again putting her money where her mouth is. On Valentine's Day, her Shrinktunes Media, together with Paulinho Garcia's Jazzmin Records, is releasing Beautiful Love with a dinner concert at Chicago's International Theater. The CD, which is receiving uniformly glowing reviews in the United States as ...

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For The "Mad Genius" On Your List...

Source: Dr. Judith Schlesinger
December 19, 2013

The Insanity Hoax: Exposing the myth of the mad genius is an eye-opening, entertaining, and reassuring look at the (false) link between talent and mental illness. Written by long-time All About Jazz contributor and psychologist Dr. Judith Schlesinger, The Insanity Hoax has become a textbook at Temple University as well as the Royal College of Music in London, and is now available at amazon.com in Kindle as well as “real” book format. At theinsanityhoax.com, you can use PayPal for paperback ...

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The Insanity Hoax Becomes An E-! And It's Free For Two Days!

Source: Dr. Judith Schlesinger
November 22, 2012

In a belated acknowledgment of 21st century technology, All About Jazz's own columnist/reviewer Dr. Judith Schlesinger has finally made her acclaimed book, The Insanity Hoax: Exposing the myth of the mad genius into a Kindle edition. Even better: for two days, The Insanity Hoax will be available on amazon.com for free (and she's only telling her friends at AAJ). You can still get the paperback on amazon, as well as signed copies at the author's web site (cleverly called theinsanityhoax.com), ...

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Mad Jazz On NPR!

Source: Dr. Judith Schlesinger
May 8, 2012

Recently Dr. Judith Schlesinger, All About Jazz's Shrinktunes and Nite & Disk columnist, was interviewed about her new book The Insanity Hoax: Exposing the myth of the mad genius by Jeff Haas, host of The New Jazz Archive on Interlochen Public Radio. The show explores the overlap between psychology and jazz. In her segment (6:15 to 18.51), Dr. Schlesinger describes the historic factors that keep the myth in play despite its complete lack of scientific validity, and explains how easily ...

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The Insanity Hoax Receives First Honor

Source: Dr. Judith Schlesinger
February 20, 2012

The Insanity Hoax: Exposing the myth of the mad genius, by our senior reviewer and columnist Dr. Judith Schlesinger, has just been chosen as a “new and “notable book" by the prestigious and long-running Skeptical Inquirer, “the magazine for science and reason." The book was chosen because it effectively challenges one of society's most unreasonable and unscientific notions: that creativity and mental disorder are always bundled together. The Insanity Hoax is the first book to comprehensively demonstrate that great talent ...

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"The Insanity Hoax; Exposing the Myth of the Mad Genius" by Dr. Judith Schlesinger is Now Available

Source: Dr. Judith Schlesinger
November 29, 2011

Are you musicians crazy, or just creative? New book provides liberating answers to these old questions Psychologist, musician, and long-time All About Jazz contributor Dr. Judith Schlesinger has finished The Insanity Hoax; Exposing the Myth of the Mad Genius. Based on thirty years of scholarly research as well as creative and therapeutic experience (but a fun read, by all reports), the book is now available at Amazon. Creative does not equal Crazy There's a long-running and cherished expectation that the ...

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