Applied Imagination

Applied Imagination is an influential 1953 book on creative ideation by Alex Faickney Osborn, in which he introduces the technique of brainstorming.

Chapters

 * 1) The all-importance of imagination
 * 2) Indispensability of creativity in science
 * 3) Careers depend largely on creativity
 * 4) Creativity in leadership and professions
 * 5) Imagination can improve personal relations
 * 6) Universality of imaginative talent
 * 7) Ways by which creativity can be developed
 * 8) Our new environment - its effect on creativity
 * 9) Other factors that tend to cramp creativity
 * 10) Creative and non-creative forms of imagination
 * 11) The process of ideation vary widely
 * 12) Orientation calls for setting our sights
 * 13) Preparation and analysis go hand in hand

Editions

 * Osborn, Alex F. (1953). Applied Imagination: Principles and Procedures of Creative Problem Solving. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953.
 * Revised edition, New York, Scribner, 1957
 * 3rd ed. New York C. Scribner 1963
 * French translation by Georges Rona and Pierre Dupont, L'Imagination constructive. Principes et processus de la Pensée créative et du Brainstorming, Paris, Dunod, 1959.
 * Chinese translation by Ikkō Shō, 応用想像力 Taipei : Kyōshi Kōgyō Sōsho Shuppan Kofun Yūgen Kōshi, 1965