--- abstract: | An old saw has it that very little divides a genius from a madman, and if one is to judge from the recorded eccentricities of those society has chosen to label as geniuses, one can readily see why. A good theory of the creative mind then, or indeed, any aspect of mind, will not only explain the mechanics of what one would consider 'healthy cognition', but also the apparent breakdown of these mechanics. This paper considers the rich contribution the field of psychiatry can make to the study of human creativity, and focuses on some particular aspects of psychoanalytic theory that are amenable to algorithmic expression. altloc: - http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~tonyv/MIND/antonio.html chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: Mind II confloc: 'Dublin, Ireland' contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Preti given: Antonio honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Miotto given: Paola honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 1997 date_type: published datestamp: 2002-01-11 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/20/26 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: - family: Veale given: Tony honourific: '' lineage: '' eprint_status: archive eprintid: 2026 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/text_html.png;/2026/1/antonio.html full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'creativity, psychiatry, mental disorder, mental ilnness, schizophrenia, depression, manic-depression, bipolar disorder, madness, suicide, artificial intelligence, evolution' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:52 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: ~ pubdom: TRUE publication: ~ publisher: ~ refereed: TRUE referencetext: | Andreasen, N. 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