Ruth Richards (1)

Ruth Richards is Professor of Psychology at Saybrook University, in the College of Social Sciences, and works in areas of Consciousness, Spirituality, Integrative Health, and in Creativity Studies. Dr. Richards' numerous publications include the edited Everyday Creativity and New Views of Human Nature, and she is winner of the Armheim Award from Div.10 of the American Psychological Association for outstanding lifetime achievement in psychology and the arts. Her many interests include healthy benefits of creative process for individuals and cultures, for personal, ethical, and spiritual development, issues of empathy and relational creativity in a troubled world, questions of beauty and awareness, and applications of Chaos Theory to an emerging worldview and view-of-self in the 21st century.