Journal article
The relationship between creativity and mood disorders
Dialogues in clinical neuroscience, Vol.10(2), pp.251-255
2008
DOI: 10.31887/DCNS.2008.10.2/ncandreasen
PMCID: PMC3181877
PMID: 18689294
Abstract
Research designed to examine the relationship between creativity and mental illnesses must confront multiple challenges. What is the optimal sample to study? How should creativity be defined? What is the most appropriate comparison group? Only a limited number of studies have examined highly creative individuals using personal interviews and a noncreative comparison group. The majority of these have examined writers. The preponderance of the evidence suggests that in these creative individuals the rate of mood disorder is high, and that both bipolar disorder and unipolar depression are quite common. Clinicians who treat creative individuals with mood disorders must also confront a variety of challenges, including the fear that treatment may diminish creativity. In the case of bipolar disorder, however, it is likely that reducing severe manic episodes may actually enhance creativity in many individuals.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The relationship between creativity and mood disorders
- Creators
- Nancy C Andreasen - Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa Health Care, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1057, USA. nancy-andreasen@uiowa.edu
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Dialogues in clinical neuroscience, Vol.10(2), pp.251-255
- DOI
- 10.31887/DCNS.2008.10.2/ncandreasen
- PMID
- 18689294
- PMCID
- PMC3181877
- NLM abbreviation
- Dialogues Clin Neurosci
- ISSN
- 1294-8322
- eISSN
- 1958-5969
- Publisher
- France
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2008
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984003456402771
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