Albert Rothenberg coined the term 'Janusian Thinking', now termed janusian process, to refer to the ability to conceive and use two or more antithetical or opposite thoughts simultaneously, a capacity Rothenberg found to be a component of outstanding creativity.His research has consisted of empirical studies of literary and artistic prize winners and Nobel laureates in chemistry, physics, and medicine or physiology.He has also described the homospatial and sepconic articulation ({cognitive processes}) as critical factors in creative achievement. The homospatial process consists of actively conceiving two or more discrete entities in the same mental space, a conception leading to the articulation of new identities. Sepconic articulation consists of the conception and use of separation (sep)and connection (con) concomitantly with the production of creative integration.

Born in New York, Rothenberg attended Harvard College, graduated in medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, and received his psychiatric training at the Yale University Department of Psychiatry. He is currently Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He has been a NIMH Research Career Investigator, has received a Guggenhein Award, and he has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

In addition to many academic articles, he has written several sxientific books on creativity such as The Emerging Goddess: The Creative Process in Art, Science, and Other Fields (1979) and two novels entitled Living Color and Madness and Glory.

Works and Publications

• Rothenberg A Janusian, homospatial, and sepconic articulation processes. Encyclopedia of Creativity. Academic 2011
• Rothenberg A Madness and Glory: A Novel. River School Press 2011

Rothenberg, A. Living Color: A Novel. York Press,2001

• Rothenberg A. Creativity and Madness Johns Hopkins U Press 1990
• Rothenberg A The Creative Process of Psychotherapy Norton 1988

Rothenberg, A. The Emerging Goddess: The Creative Process in Art, Science, and Other Fields. U Chicago Press,1079