Journal article
Bipolar affective disorder and creativity: Implications and clinical management
Comprehensive psychiatry, Vol.29(3), pp.207-217
1988
DOI: 10.1016/0010-440X(88)90044-2
PMID: 3288437
Abstract
Research on the relationship between creativity and mental illness is summarized, and studies documenting a relationship in writers between creativity and affective illness (particularly bipolar illness) are described. Writers have a high prevalence of affective illness, and both affective illness and creativity have increased frequency in their first-degree relatives. The clinical management of the creative individual is challenging. In general, creative individuals are most productive when their affective symptoms are under good control.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Bipolar affective disorder and creativity: Implications and clinical management
- Creators
- Nancy C Andreasen - Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, USAIra D Glick - Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Comprehensive psychiatry, Vol.29(3), pp.207-217
- DOI
- 10.1016/0010-440X(88)90044-2
- PMID
- 3288437
- NLM abbreviation
- Compr Psychiatry
- ISSN
- 0010-440X
- eISSN
- 1532-8384
- Publisher
- Elsevier Inc
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1988
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984003448102771
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