Creativity and mental illness / edited by James C. Kaufman.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Re-examines the common view that a high level of individual creativity often correlates with a heightened risk of mental illness.

Part I. Creativity and mental illness: the state of the field. 1. A socio-historical overview of the creativity-pathology connection: from antiquity to contemporary times ; 2. The mad (creative) genius: what do we know after a century of historiometric research? ; 3. Reviewing recent empirical findings on creativity and mental illness ; 4. Building connections on sand: the cautionary chapter -- Part II. Cognitive and neuroscientific perspectives on creativity and mental illness. 5. Neurocognitive mechanisms underlying creative thinking: indications from studies of mental illness ; 6. The evolutionary genetics of the creativity-psychosis connection ; 7. Non-linearity in creativity and mental illness: the mixed blessings of chaos, catastrophe, and noise in brain and behavior ; 8. Artists' vulnerability to psychopathology: an integrative cognitive perspective -- Part III. Creativity and the spectrum of mental illness. 9. Creativity and the spectrum of affective and schizophrenic psychoses ; 10. When good is bad and bad is good: mood, bipolarity, and creativity ; 11. Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and creativity: ever the twain shall meet? -- Part IV. Creativity and mental illness: possible commonalities. 12. The shared vulnerability model of creativity and psychopathology ; 13. On the fragility of the artist: art's precarious triad ; 14. Creativity as "compensatory advantage": bipolar and schizophrenic liability, the inverted-U hypothesis, and practical implications -- Part V. Creativity and mental health. 15. Bringing the whole universe to order: creativity, healing, and posttraumatic growth ; 16. Inspiration and the creative process ; 17. King Solomon and psychoneuroimmunology: creativity and life coping -- Part VI. Creativity and mental illness: what now? 18. Ruminating about mental illness and creativity ; 19. Creativity and mental illness: reasons to care and beware -- Index.

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