Creativity and mental illness
Being creative person who suffers from depression I have become quite
interested in the link between mental illness and creativity. It seems
a truism that there isn't much separating genius from madness, but there
does actually seem to be link...
ARE CREATIVITY and
MENTAL ILLNESS LINKED? Resources by Steven Thow another list which
has overlaps with this one.
Are Creativity and Mental
Illness Linked? originally printed in the December 1996 issue of Today's
Science On File
Bibliography for
Famous People of the Past Who Had Depression or Manic Depression
Creative
Process & Depression: from the Minneago Belladonna Journal #5 issue
of strange affliction.
Creative
Tension: A Crucial Component of Creativity in the Workplace by Lori
Reisenbichler for The Center for the Study of Work Teams. Briefly looks
at the relationship of creativity and mental illness.
Creativity and
Depression and Manic-depression : Studies of Writers
and Artists. Primarily aims at selling the book "Touched by Fire" but
some interesting vignettes of famous depressed people.
Creativity
and Mental Illness: Is There a Link? - Can J Psychiatry, Vol 43, March
1998.
Creativity
and the Troubled Mind by Constance Holden Reprinted from Psychology
Today, April, 1987.
Creativity,
Depression and Suicide - The American Foundation for Suicide
Prevention.
Creativity,
Evolution and Mental Illnesses. Journal of Memetics, Issue 2 - Dec
1997
Creativity's melancholy canvas
from Science News.
Depression,
Women and Creativity - Self-help and psychology magazine article
Famous (Living) People Who Have Experienced Depression or Manic Depression
Famous People with Bipolar Disorders
The
gift of Saturn : creativity and psycopathology ANTONIO PRETI,
MD
Highly
creative people more likely to have severe psychiatric disorders
- The Royal College of Psychiatrists press release - Friday 2 July
1999.
The
Influence of Depression on Creativity in Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- essay by Stanford student in Writing and Critical Thinking course.
Madness
and creativity - Science, 266:1483, 1994
Manic-Depressive
Illness and Creativity by Kay Redfield Jamison author of Touched
by Fire. Appeared in Scientific American Feb 95.
Misdiagnosis of the
Gifted published in Mensa Bulletin, November 1994
Moods
and the muse The Best of SCIENCE NEWS, June 17, 1995.
Of madness
and creative genius ABIGAIL TRAFFORD reflects on van Gogh's painting
and pain. Business Times Singapore Online.
Overview of Clinical Depression. David Joffe 1998 - from abstract... The hypothetical link between creativity
and depression is discussed (actually pretty brief discussion).
Studies In
Madness : The Role of Cognitive Style in the Effects Of Mental
Illness On The Creative Genius of Jazz Pianists Thelonious Monk and
Bud Powell by Martin Margulis, Ph.D.
Van Gogh, Prozac and
Creativity: A Mere Pigment of the Imagination? from "The
Stress Doc" - site includes readers replies to his essay.
Virginia
Woolf's Psyciatric History
The Warped Muse by John McManamy, journalist and writer.
The
Write Brain - Mental Health InfoSource Online journal - original
literature, personal stories and art from 'patients'.
The
Writer and Depression Elizabeth Moon a science fiction writer.
Writers
and Depression - Nancy Etchemendy. Speculations: For Writers
Who Want To Be Read
Writers
and Mental Illness
Yellow Brick Road Welcome to my bipolar and creativity page, Holly.
Book reviews on Creativity and Mental Illness
MANIC DEPRESSION AND CREATIVITY by D Jablow Hershman and Julian Lieb MD (Prometheus Books, Amherst and New York, 216 pages.)