Jeffrey E. Evans
Clinical Associate Professor RC Department: Social Theory and Practice Phone: (734) 936 7052 jeevans@umich.edu
Office: 108 Tyler Office hours: By appointment
Jeff Evans is First Year Seminar Program Head, and he has been teaching in the RC since 1976. He is also Director of Training for the adult postdoctoral fellowship program at the UM Hospital’s Division of Rehabilitation Psychology and Neuropsychology, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Jeff’s teaching focus is the psychology and neuropsychology of the creative process, and his abiding interest is the ways in which a biological organ – the brain – makes possible complex and subtle experience and behavior.
Jeff’s clinical focus at the hospital is the diagnosis and treatment of people with injuries and illnesses that affect the brain. His work at the hospital and at the RC inform each other. He is currently participating in a project that will train professional artists to facilitate creative activity with hospital patients at the bedside. He also sponsors students interested in a hospital volunteer experience that involves assisting staff in their work with patients who are cognitively impaired.
Recent Courses
The Science of Creativity; the Creativity of Science (First-year Seminar)
Art, Mind, and Medicine
Mind and Brain in the Creative Process
Selected Articles
“The Science of Creativity and Health,” in Serlin, Ilene (ed.), Whole Person Healthcare, Praeger, Westport CT, 2007.
“Picasso’s Guernica: The Genesis of a Painting,” by Rudolf Arnheim (book review). Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, in press.