Bartlett, Dr. Steven James (2008) The Abnormal Psychology of Creativity and the Pathology of Normality. [Preprint]
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Abstract
Psychiatry faces a little-recognized dilemma in understanding and treating creative individuals. On the one hand, it is well established that extremes of mood among the creative are often valued by them, and hence they may resist treatment for affective disorders and discontinue prescribed medication. On the other hand, it is not well understood that many of the disorders ascribed to creative individuals are the result of their justifiable response to widespread but seldom recognized pathologies found in the normal population. Understanding the interplay between these two horns of the dilemma can help psychiatrists appreciate the need to be especially circumspect and reflective in their diagnostic classification and treatment of mood extremes among the creative.
| Item Type: | Preprint |
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| Keywords: | creativity, psychopathology, mental health, human evil, nosological uncertainties |
| Subjects: | Psychology > Social Psychology Psychology > Cognitive Psychology Psychology > Clinical Psychology |
| ID Code: | 6210 |
| Deposited By: | Bartlett, Dr. Steven James |
| Deposited On: | 19 Sep 2008 14:56 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Sep 2008 14:56 |
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