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Creativity and Madness

  • ISBN 9780801849770
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  • Publ Date: 1994-09-15
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  • Binding: Paperback / softback

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Intrigued by history's list of "troubled geniuses", Albert Rothenberg investigates how two such opposite conditions - outstanding creativity and psychosis - could co-exist in the same individual. After studying creative geniuses of the past, conducting over 2000 hours of psychiatric interviews with prize-winning writers, artists and scientists, and carrying out psychological experiments with more than 1000 research subjects, Rothenberg concludes that high-level creativity transcends the usual modes of logical thought - and many even superficially resemble psychosis. But he also discovers that all types of creative thinking generally occur in a rational and conscious frame of mind, not in a mystically altered or transformed state. He asserts that there is nothing pathological in creativity, though it clearly can co-exist with psychosis. Far from being the source - or the price - of creativity, Rothenberg concludes, psychosis and other forms of mental illness are actually hindrances to creative work.
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