About Charles Johnston M.D.

Charles Johnston is a psychiatrist, futurist, and writer. He was founder of the Institute for Creative Development and its director during its years as a bricks and mortar Institution. Today he coordinates the Cultural Maturity blog and the Institute’s global outreach. He is best know as the originator of Creative Systems Theory, a comprehensive framework for understanding change and interrelationship in human systems.

Dr. Johnston is often described as a “cultural psychiatrist.” Most futurists focus on technological advances and specifics of policy. Such concerns have a place in his efforts, but his greater interest lies with the psychological, social, and leadership capacities that humanity will need to effectively address the questions before us. The larger part of his work involves training leaders in the new skills and broader perspectives that effective decision-making in the future will increasingly require.

Dr. Johnston’s books include The Creative Imperative: Human Growth and Planetary Evolution (1984), Necessary Wisdom (1991), Pattern and Reality: A brief Introduction to Creative Systems Theory (2002), The Power of Diversity: An Introduction to the Creative Systems Personality Typology (2002).  He will be releasing four additional books over the next couple of years: Cultural Maturity: A Guidebook for the Future (an overview of the concept of Cultural Maturity intended for leaders, social change agents, and others generally interested in the concept and its implications),  Quick and Dirty Answers to the Biggest of Questions: Creative Systems Theory Explains What it is All About (Really) (an overview of  Creative Systems Theory for those who appreciate “theory of everything” perspective), Purpose-Centered Psychotherapy: How Cultural Maturity Changes the Therapeutic Endeavor (bringing a Creative Systems Theory lens to psychology and psychotherapeutic practice),  and Hope and the Future: Understanding the New Creativity and Maturity on Which Our Future Depends (a new major — 750 page — work).

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