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Robin Williams's suicide -- what is the link between creativity and mental illness ?  - This however, reignites the old debate about the link between creativity and mental illness . Various studies seem to suggest that people who have a ...

The Real Link Between Creativity and Mental Illness  - The romantic notion that mental illness and creativity are linked is so prominent in the public consciousness that it is rarely challenged. So before I continue,  ...

Link between creativity and mental illness confirmed : People in creative professions are treated more often for mental illness than the general population, there being a particularly salient connection between writing and schizophrenia. This according to researchers at Karolinska Institutet, whose large ...

Study suggests genetic link between creativity and mental illness  - The researchers have also examined the link between creativity and psychiatric disorders through a different set of information obtained from four ...

Study suggests genetic link between creativity and mental illness  - The researchers have also examined the link between creativity and psychiatric disorders through a different set of information obtained from four ...

Creativity and Mental Illness  - Recent large-scale registry and brain imaging studies are exploring the validity of this ancient observation, which linked creativity/genius and ...

Is there a Connection between Intelligence, Creativity and Mental Illness ?  - Plagued by mental health disorders such as depression, bipolar polar disorder , and schizophrenia, are a host of artists, writers and famous people ...

The yin and yang of creativity and mental illness  - In the 1971 musical film "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory," the titular character demonstrates quite starkly the imagination's power to both delight ...

Critics say that a new study linking creativity and mental illness is lacking  - Genetic variations that can collectively increase a person's risk of being diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder can also be used to predict ...

Critics say that a new study linking creativity and mental illness is lacking  - Genetic variations that can collectively increase a person's risk of being diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder can also be used to predict ...

The Relationship Between Creativity and Mental Illness  - I think I’ve only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing,” Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Katherine Anne Porter confessed in a 1963 interview. “The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water.” While art may be a form of therapy for the rest of us, Porter’s is a sentiment far from uncommon among the creatively gifted who make that art. Why?

Mental Illness: Don't Throw Out the Good With the Bad The relationship between creativity and mental illness has been well-documented. Now a new study confirms that bipolar disorder is found more commonly among people in artistic or scientific professions. In fact, the authors of the study note ...

Creativity 'closely entwined with mental illness' : Creativity is often part of a mental illness , with writers particularly susceptible, according to a study of more than a million people. Writers had a higher risk of anxiety and bipolar disorders, schizophrenia, unipolar depression, and substance abuse ... BBC News

Genetic risk of psychiatric illness linked to creativity  - These findings appear to present data to support the long-held societal belief that creativity and mental illness are linked, but the strength of the ...

Creativity and Bipolar Disorder : A Fresh Look - He addressed his experiences of mental illness explicitly in poems like “Waking in the Blue,” “Home After Three Months Away,” “Man and Wife,” and ...

Professional creativity associated with mental illness Individuals with creative professions were more likely to have mental illness , researchers from Sweden reported. In particular, authors were more likely to have schizophrenia and a range of other mental disorders . The study results build on previous ...

Inherited trait could link mental illness and creativity  - In recent years comedians have been speaking freely about their mental illness . Most famously, Ruby Wax devoted whole shows to it at the Edinburgh ...

The tortured artist is not a myth  - In his recent article on the relationship between creativity and mental illness , Jonathan Forani draws attention to an important and topical issue.

What Neuroscience Has To Say About The 'Tortured Genius'  - By this logic, the coexistence of creativity and mental illness is not a coincidence: The talent and the demons are thought to be inextricably linked.

The myth of tormented genius: the link between mental health and creativity - In the contemporary perception of extraordinary artistry, it seems that the question of what is older – the history of music or the history of mental illness  ...