Curriculum Vitae

of

JOHN G. YOUNG, M.D.

Board Certified in Psychiatry

1709 Hillside Road

Boulder, CO 80302

303 444-8843

 

Brief Bio

 

Young, John G. M.D. Adventures in Creativity, President. Board Certified in Psychiatry. jgyoungmdaic@hotmail.com  Website: www.adventuresincreativity.net 

 

Author of many books and articles on the creative process and person including S.E.L.E.C.T.: CREATIVE/ INNOVATIVE APPROACHES, OPERATING STYLES AND CREATIVE LEADERSHIP, WILL AND WON'T: AUTONOMY AND CREATIVITY BLOCKS, PSYCHOLOGICAL AWARENESS AND CREATIVE EXPRESSION, EVOLUTIONARY CREATIVITY, and PARENTING, TEACHING AND COUNSELING THE CREATIVELY GIFTED CHILD. 

 

Created the Wellness and Psychological Fitness Audio-tape Program. Accomplished artist, a published poet, a contemporary improv pianist and composer, an inventor, a professional speaker, and a seminar/workshop leader.  Taught classes on creativity, innovation and change at the University of Colorado, adjunct professor with the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Creativity at Metropolitan State College.

 

One man art show at the ellenKathryn Art Gallery, St. John’s Art Gallery  and has shown at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. Presented at the "Creative Problem Solving Institute," Buffalo, N.Y., the "Creativity and Madness" conference, Maui, Hawaii, the "Design Management Conference,"  Martha's Vineyard,  Mass,  and the "Imagination and Innovation in Litigation Symposium" at Vail.

 

The Creative Adventure, a two-hour video, created and produced by Dr. Young, won The International Cindy Award, The Telly Award, and The Communicator Award.  His website at www.adventuresincreativity.net won the international Golden Web Award. Creates  in various mediums including video and animation, consults with individuals and organizations, Special interest in creative functioning and psychological fitness. Creative coach. Used to see individual clients who were depressed, anxious, distracted or blocked from fulfilling their potential and collaborates with other therapists providing psychopharmacological support. Currently acting as creative coach.

 

More Complete Curriculum Vitae

 

John G. Young, M.D. is a board certified psychiatrist who has a special interest in creative functioning and psychological fitness. He sees individual clients in therapy who are depressed, anxious, distracted or blocked from fulfilling their potential and collaborates with other therapists providing psychopharmacological support.

 

In 1990 he founded Associated Psychiatric Services in New Smyrna Beach, Florida after moving from Denver, Colorado where he practiced since 1974. Dr. Young administrated the clinic and acted as a consultant to the psychologist, psychiatric nurse, and social worker in the group. In June 1997 Dr. Young moved to Boulder, CO to get better services for his seriously hearing-impaired daughter.  He was medical director at Boulder Behavior Health and now has a private practice in Boulder, CO.

 

Dr. Young has a varied background.  He was first in his class at the University of Massachusetts School of Engineering. In his junior year he transferred to the School of Liberal Arts where hegraduated Magna cum Laude with Honors in Philosophy. The University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry gave him a four-year full tuition scholarship.  After he completed the psychiatry residency program at the University of Colorado in 1974, he was appointed to the adjunct faculty at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

 

Dr. Young is the author of many books and articles on the creative process and person including S.E.L.E.C.T.: CREATIVE/ INNOVATIVE APPROACHES, OPERATING STYLES AND CREATIVE LEADERSHIP, WILL AND WON'T: AUTONOMY AND CREATIVITY BLOCKS, PSYCHOLOGICAL AWARENESS AND CREATIVE EXPRESSION, EVOLUTIONARY CREATIVITY, and PARENTING, TEACHING AND COUNSELING THE CREATIVELY GIFTED CHILD.  He has also developed the scripts and the music for an audio-tape series called  the Wellness and Psychological Fitness Audio-tape Program.

 

Dr. Young is an accomplished artist, a published poet, a contemporary improv pianist and composer, an inventor, a professional speaker, and a seminar/workshop leader.  He has taught classes on creativity, innovation and change at the University of Colorado and has been an adjunct professor with the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Creativity at Metropolitan State College, in Denver, Colorado.

 

He has been invited to present at the "Creative Problem Solving Institute," Buffalo, N.Y., the "Creativity and Madness" conference, Maui, Hawaii, the "Design Management Conference,"  Martha's Vineyard,  Mass,  and the "Imagination and Innovation in Litigation Symposium" at Vail. He has had international clients as well as Coors, Proctor and Gamble, Colorado Mountain College, Public Service of Colorado, AT&T and banks, restaurants, hospitals and mental health centers.

 

The Creative Adventure, a two-hour video, created and produced by Dr. Young, won The International Cindy Award, The Telly Award, and The Communicator Award.  In this video, Dr. Young develops the original conception that love is essential to creative functioning.   He shows you how to develop maximum effectiveness using creative and innovative approaches.  To market this project Dr. Young established ADVENTURES IN CREATIVITY, INC. in 1996 and set up a website on the World Wide Web at www.adventuresincreativity.net, that won the Golden Web Award. Also included at this site is an on-line multimedia magazine, an art gallery, e-books on creativity, over 200 poems, and 26 hours of original piano improv on Shoutcast.  He just completed, the DVD, Poems at an Exhibition about coping with disability and a whimsical short called Concerto for Foxes, Deer and other wild ones.

 

His current focus is creating multimedia art, creative coaching and consulting to businesses and organizations in creativity, innovation and change. He has retired from seeing private psychiatric patients..

 

Education

 

1954-1958           North Quincy High School, eighth  in a  graduating class of 221

1958-1962           University   of   Massachusetts. First  in  the engineering class  for two years,

                               then he transferred to the philosophy department where he graduated with a

                              Bachelor of Arts, Magna cum Laude with Honors in Philosophy.

1962-1963           University of Massachusetts, Special Student in the graduate school.  Taught

                              zoology laboratories and received premed credits.

1963-1965           University of  Rochester  School  of Medicine  and  Dentistry.   Four year  full

                              tuition scholarship. 

1965-1966           University of  Rochester School  of  Medicine  and Dentistry.  Year-out Fellow in

                              Pathology

1966                     Summer fellowship at the Cancer Institute in Lima, Peru

1966-1968           University of  Rochester  School  of Medicine  and  Dentistry, clinical years.

1968                      Received M.D. degree

1968-1969           Rochester General  Hospital,   Rotating  Internship,  focusing  on  psychiatry and

                              medicine.   Two months spent at Strong  Memorial University Hospital,  Rochester, N.Y.

1969-1970              University  of  Colorado  Medical Center, Psychiatry Residency, First Year

1970-1972              USNR in Orlando, FL

1972-1974              University  of  Colorado  Medical Center, Psychiatry Residency, Second and Third Years

 

Work Experience

 

1952-1955              Taught sailing, swimming  YMCA  Day  Camp, Quincy, Mass.

1956                     Worked with an engineering firm in Roxberry, MA.

1957-1962           Taught  swimming  and lifesaving, Mason's Island Yacht Club

1970-1972               USNR Orlando, Florida.  Lt. Commander worked  as  a psychiatrist  evaluating new       recruits and  doing  out-patient and in-patient    psychiatry

1974-1978              Private practice of psychiatry

1974                     Appointed clinical instructor in psychiatry, University of Colorado Medical Center

1977 to  present.  Consultant, speaker, seminar/workshop leader on creativity, innovation and change

1978-1983           Consultant in psychiatry at the Denver VA  Hospital and the  Ft.  Lyon VA Hospital

1978-1980            Consultant in  psychiatry  to  the  Alamosa  Mental Health Center, Alamosa, CO

1983 to present: Private practice in psychiatry    

1984 Feb-Sept.   Inpatient psychiatrist 7/8 time at the Denver VA Hospital    

1986-1987           Part-time psychiatrist for the Adams Community Mental Health Center, Westminster, CO

1989-1990           Psychiatric Consultant  for  the Parkside Lodge, Thornton, Colorado

1990-1997            Founded Associated Psychiatric Services in New Symrna Beach, FL.

1990-1991           On medical staff at Atlantic Shores Hospital, Daytona, FL

1990-1991            Part-time psychiatrist for the ACT Corporation  Community Mental Health program.

1990                     Adjunct  Professor, Behavioral Sciences Program at Daytona Beach  Community College

1990                     Consultation  to  the  Steward Alcohol Treatment  Center's dual diagnosis program

1990-1997           Medical staff at Fish Hospital  in New Smyrna Beach.

1990-1996           Medical staff at  West Volusia Memorial Hospital, Deland

1992-1993               Psychiatric evaluation and treatment at the Volusia County Branch Jail.

1994-1995              Medical Staff at Volusia Medical Center, Orange City, FL

1997 to present   President of ADVENTURES IN CREATIVITY,  INC.

1997 to present   Private practice in psychiatry in Boulder, CO

1997 to 1998       Psychiatrist at Adams Community Mental Health Center

1998 to 1999       Psychiatrist at the Larimer County Mental Health Center

1998 to present    Medical Director, Boulder Behavioral Health, Limited Liability Partnership

1999 to present   Medical staff at Boulder Community Hospital

2000 to present   Private practice at 1709 Hillside Rd, Boulder, CO full time

2001 to present   Advisory Boards for Lilly, Shire US and Forest Pharmaceuticals

2006                    Retired from the practice of psychiatry

Awards

 

1958                     National Honor Society

1959                     Phi Eta Sigma, Freshman Honor Society.  Office of president and ran its tutoring program

1962                            Four-year, full-tuition, four-year scholarship to University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

1969                     Diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners

1976                     Certified in  Psychiatry  by  the  American  Board  of Psychiatry and Neuro1ogy

1996                     International Cindy Award, Communicator Award, Telly Award for "The Creative

                              Adventure: Part One, Love and Conception"

1998                     Level Two Examiner for Worker’s Compensation in Colorado in psychiatry

 

Workshops and seminars

 

1977                    Seminar on "Creativity" Heritage Arts Guild

1978                     Workshop on Creativity, Arvada Center for the  Arts and Humanities

1978-1979           Seminars  on  "Understanding  Creativity"  at the University of Colorado, Division of Continuing Education

1978                     Seminars  on  "Understanding  Creativity" at the Denver  Free University

1978                     Speaker at Creativity Day at the Foothills Art Center

1979                     Speaker at seminar on the "Development of a  Goldsmith," Foothills Art Center

1979                     "Human Brain Research."  One of several invited speakers on the Split Brain,

                              University of Colorado at Denver

1981                     "Tools  for Creativity and Innovative Thinking" two day workshop sponsored by

                              the Southeastern  Colorado  Area of  Health  Education Center at Ft.  Lyon

1981                     "Creativity and Power" Seminar presentation at the Vail National Nurses   

                              Chatauqua Conference with Pamula Howard, R.N..

1981                     Center for Creativity presentation of 16 seminars at the Denver Free University

1983                     "Innovative Thinking for Teachers."  Workshop at Cherry Creek Schools

1983                     "Creative  Attitudes  and Approaches." Presentation to Greeley Industrial Bank.

1984                     "Overcoming  the  Fear  of  Success." Talk  at the International Athletic Club.

1984                     "Overcoming  Creativity  Blocks."  Talk with the Denver Allied Artists Guild

1984                     "Do It  Creatively." Talk  with the Denver Business Network

1984                     Guest of  Harry Cullis,  Commission  of Community Relations, City and County

                              of Denver.  "Let's Pull Together" radio  show over fifteen  different  stations  in

                              the  Denver area--two  programs on creativity and innovation.

1984                     "Creative  Approaches," presentation to Mercy Hospital medical education

                              department.

1985                     Asked  back  for  another  interview  on  "Let's Pull Together."

1985                     "How  Art  Can Inhibit Communication."  Presentation to the Center for Arts

                              Therapy.

1985                     "Productivity: Creative/Innovative Approaches."  Workshop with D.O.V.I.A.

                              Directors of Volunteers in Agencies.

1985                     “S.E.L.E.C.T.  A Creative/Innovative Approach to Problem Solving. “ One-day

                              workshop at Adolph Coors.

1985                     "Cognitive  Aspects of   the   Creative   Process."  Creativity and  Madness,  The

                              American  Institute  of  Medical  Education presentation in Maui, Hawaii.

1985                     "Creativity, Innovation and Change."  Seminars presented in cooperation with

                              Denver Free University

1985                     "Creative/Innovative Approaches."   Rocky Mountain Inventor's Congress.

1985                     "Creative  Consulting."  University of Colorado Medical Center presentation,

                              Biomedical Statistics Dept.

1985                     "Creative   Expression   and   Creative    Conflict," S.E.L.E.C.T. Creative,

                              Innovative  Approaches,  and Blocks and  Breakthroughs in Creativity"--   

                              Presentations as a Resource Leader, Summerfest Creative Problem-Solving

                              Institute, Creative Education  Foundation, Buffalo, New York.

1986                     "Creativity  in  Business course"  Adjunct  Professor  at  the Institute of Entrepreneurship

                              and Creativity, Metro State College Summer and Fall semesters

1986                     Presentation on Creative Problem Solving, Colorado Mountain College, Leadville CO.

1986                      Workshop presented  to  Procter and Gamble's "Plus 10" task force in Cincinnati,

                              OH  in  conjunction  with the  Creative  Education Foundation, Buffalo, N.Y.

1986                    Talk on Creativity: University of Colorado at Denver Women's Resource Center

1986                     Talk on Creativity: Denver Management Association

1986                     "S.E-L-E-C.T-: CREATIVE/INNOVATIVE. APPROACHES."  Presented to

                              psychology interns at Adams Community Mental Health Center.

1986                     Talks to numerous Optimist, Kiwanis,  Rotary  Clubs, the  Denver Mensa,

                              Colorado Speakers Showcase on creativity, innovation and change.

1986                     Creative  Problem  Solving Institute, Buffalo N.Y presentations: “S.E.L.E.C.T: CREATIVE/INNOVATIVE APPROACHES, WILL  AND WON'T:  AUTONOMY AND CREATIVITY BLOCKS and OPERATING STYLES AND CREATIVE LEADERSHIP"

1986                     "Parenting the Creatively Gifted."  American CableVision and Adams Country Mental Health Center.

1986                     "Creative Approaches to Management."  Summer Management Institute, Vail, CO, co-sponsored by the Division of Mental Health and the Colorado  Association of  Community  Mental  Health Centers  and Clinics.

1986                     "S.E.L.E.C.T   CREATIVE/INNOVATIVE   APPROACHES." Design Management Institute, Massachusetts Art  Institute  conference  on  Martha's Vineyard, MA

1987                     "Creativity and Wellness," Public Service Workshop, Denver, CO    

1987                     "Creativity and Wellness," Jefferson County Schools

1987                     "Creativity and Psychotherapy," Aurora Community Mental  Health Center

1987                     "Deliberate Creativity" Imagination and Innovation in Litigation, Continuing

                              Legal Education in Colorado, Inc. Vail, CO

1990                     "Creativity, Innovation and Change" One day workshop in Westminster, CO  

1990                     Presentation to the Alzheimer's Support Group, New Smyrna Beach

1992                     Presentation to the Multiple Sclerosis Support Group, Volusia County.

1993                             “Creativity, Innovation and Change” at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Harris House.

1999                            Social Phobia presentation to Larimer County Mental Health Center

1999                            Off label uses of Neurontin, Larimer County presentation.     

1999                               Stress Reduction and Relaxation presentation, Boulder, CO

 

Art

John G. Young studied with Betty DeMaree, A.W.S., Bob Wood, A.W.S., Edgar Whitney, A.W.S., Virginia Cobb, A.W.S., Poly Hammond, A.W.S., Carol Barnes, A.W. S., Louise Cadillac, A.W.S., Phil Steel at the Denver Art Institute, and Mark Daley at the Loveland Art Institute. He took classes at the Jewish Community Center, The University of Colorado and the University of Denver, but mostly is self-taught. He has shown paintings at the Artemis Gallery, Denver, the Heart Gallery, Denver, the Patio Gallery, Georgetown, the Foothills Art Center, the Summit Gallery, Dillon, ART Mart Galleries, Boulder, and with the Heritage Art Guild in Colorado. He was recently represented by the "ellenkathryn gallery" in Boulder Colorado. He has had one man shows at Colorado Federal Savings Bank , Zack's Restaurant in Denver, Colorado and at the EllenKathryn gallery.  Recent works have been juried into the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and the Best of Colorado Art Festival, the Energy show at St. John's Art Gallery, Open Studios in Boulder, CO, The Louisville National Fine Arts Show, The Core Art Gallery, "Word Play" exhibit. Currently he shows at the Studio Two Gallery at Rembrandt Yard in Boulder, CO.

 

 

 

Poetry Publications

 

The Denver Post, Poetry Forum:                  "Back seat Driven," "Sublime," "Fear of Crying," "Timid

                                                            Tiger," "Hard to Take Taking," "Hardly a Bouquet," "For the Birds."

The Emissary:                                   "Blindspots," "Around the Subject,'' "Birdfeeder"

Gumbo:                                              "On the Need for Biofeedback Therapy"

The  Foothills  Flyer:                       "Bad  Debts,"  "Therapy  Duel/t," "After the Fall," "Pictures

                                                            at a Sidewalk Show," "End Enough"

Psychiatric Opinion:                        “Manic-Panic," "Therapist's  Waiting  Room," "Fearful

Motivation," "Alcoholism  in n-Dimensions," "Therapy  Duel/t," "Dream Maker," "Lost Present.”

Second Page:                                    "Like a Diamond," "Half Whole"

The Blue Unicorn:                                           "Expired Verse"

Trail and Timberline:                      "Thoughts from my window"

 

Accepted for publication with paintings Kaleidoscope: Exploring the Experience of Disability through Literature and the Fine Arts: Cabin 9; Shades of Blue, At the Marina, Shopping for Jewels, Falling for Godot

 

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Public readings of poems at Care Nepenthe and  the  Foothills Art Center, Denver CO. "Manic  Panic," "Alcoholism, "Token  Economy Ward" and "Bad Debts"  have been accepted for publication in a book of poetry written by  psychotherapists.

Music

 

Dr. Young took private lessons from Richard Edgner of the Eastman  School  of Music,  Mark Bretz  and Brian Golden. Dr. Young spontaneously improvises on the piano.  He began composing and creating the music, Invitation, Love Duet and Ballad of Joe and Mary  for the award-winning  video, The Creative Adventure with the assistance of Harold Blanchard.  Dr. Young spontaneously improvised the background to the audiotape series, Wellness and Psychological Fitness.  He is a past member of the Denver Musicians Association. All the new videos have music background created and performed by Dr. Young.

 

Publications on Creativity

 

"Feature Artist: John Young."   presented in  "The Heritage Fine Arts Guild Newsletter." Vol. 7,

No. 6.   February 1979.

"Negative  Spaces",  Journal  of Creative Behavior, Vol. 16, Number 4, Fourth Quarter, 1982

pp.  256-264.

"Psychic Freedom, in Creative Persons", Journal  of  Creative Behavior, Vol. 15, Number 3,

Third Quarter, 1981, pp. 179-182.

"Conflict  and  Artistic  Creativity",  Journal  of Creative Behavior, Vol. 15, Number 2, Second

Quarter, 1981, pp. 99-101.

"Sexual  and  'Conceptual  Creativity"  Journal  of  Creative Behavior Vol.   18, No.  4 1984

"Creativity," by Diane Hartman.  Dr. John G. Young was featured in the "Contemporary"  section

of the Sunday Denver Post, February 14,  1982.

"Toward a Definition of Creativity," MD Vol. 26 No. l, Jan, 1982 p. 27 ff.

"What is Creativity? Journal of  Creative Behavior  Vol. 19,  No.  2  p. 27  ff.

"Self Expression and Creative Expression," The American Music Teacher, April/May 1986,

pp.  32-33.

S.E.L.E.C.T:CREATIVE/INNOVATIVE APPROACHES. Buffalo, N.Y.:Bearly Limited

Publications, 1986.

OPERATING  STYLES  AND  CREATIVE  LEADERSHIP. Buffalo, N.Y.:

Bearly Limited Publications, 1987.

EVOLUTIONARY CREATIVITY:  Selection in Creativity accepted for publication by the

Bearly Limited Publications, Buffalo, NY.

AWARENESS AND CREATIVE EXPRESSION accepted for  publication by the Bearly

Limited Publications.

WILL AND WON'T: Autonomy and Creativity Blocks accepted for publication by the Bearly

Limited Publications.

PARENTING THE CREATIVELY GIFTED accepted for publication by Bearly Limited

Publications.

Keys   to   Creativity   and  Innovation  1983  (Accepted for publication by The

Philosophical Library)

Adventures in Creativity, Multimedia Online Magazine on the World Wide Web at www.adventuresincreativity.net

 

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