Creative Self Discovery (Trilogy)

About the Book

In Creative Self-Discovery: A Spiritual Journey into Self, Fred Weaver III, M.D. challenges readers to look beyond society’s ills and examine the roots of many problems that face us today. The book is at once a document of man’s experiences, as well as a proposition for change. Unique in its format and broad perspective, Creative Self-Discovery draws from Dr. Weaver’s living experiences as founder and director of the Institute for Creative Living in Honolulu, Hawaii and Los Angeles, California. He illustrates how our childhood experiences follow us throughout our lives. He further reveals how proper progressive creative education can remedy the problems facing us all—in particular, the problems of mental illness and substance abuse. Through a series of essays, outlines, and examples, Dr. Weaver demonstrates his theories in a direct manner which allows the reader to follow his plan chronologically. The book also includes a poetry section and a “play-work book” which allows the reader to actively participate in self question and answer sessions which will promote a private route to “self-discovery.” Be it myth or scientific fact, all roads leads to an increased self-consciousness if one follows “universal scientific and spiritual laws” related to the creative process.

About the Author

Inspired by his profession, his own psychoanalysis, self-development and self-discovery, and his personal insights into creativity, Fred Weaver III, M.D., penned Creative Self-Discovery: A Spiritual Journey into Self to share this wealth of knowledge with others. Doctor Weaver earned his Bachelor’s Degree from North Carolina Central University, obtained his Medical Degree from Meharry Medical College, and completed his psychiatric residency at UCLA. With a vast background of teaching, consulting, and private practice experience, he currently works as the director of community psychiatry and mental health consultation at the Martin Luther King, Jr./Charles Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles. He has won many local and national awards and an international award for his work on creativity. Most recently, he was given a life-time achievement award in psychiatry by his peers and the 1995 residents of the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles, California. Doctor Weaver is also actively involved in the International Council on Alcohol and Addictions, the Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse, and as a consultant to many community organizations in Los Angeles. His special interests include writing poetry, painting, creating multimedia collages, and writing about the creative process. A native of Gainesville, Florida, Dr. Weaver currently lives in Marina Del Rey, California. He is the father of four children: Wanda, Freddy, Woody, and Milton. Dr. Weaver has published many poems and a book of poetry in 1972 entitled To Creators. Creative Self-Discovery is Dr. Weaver’s second published work.