Manic Depression and Creativity

Hershman, D. Jablow

ISBN 10: 1573922412 / ISBN 13: 9781573922418

Verlag: Prometheus, 1998

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Many recognized geniuses had creative capacities that were driven by bouts of manic intensity followed by the depths of mind-numbing despair. From Plato, who originated the idea of inspired mania, to Beethoven, Dickens, Newton, Van Gogh, and today's popular creative artists and scientists who've battled manic depression, this intriguing work examines creativity and madness in mystery, myth, and history. Demonstrating how manic depression often becomes the essential difference between talent and genius, Hershman and Lieb offer valuable insights into the many obstacles and problems this illness poses for highly creative people. Lieb critiques the wave of new books on depression as well as those on creativity to determine how far we have come in our understanding of this complex illness.

The authors also explode the myth that suffering is essential to creativity. Guides for the manic depressive are suggested to reduce emotional pain and personal problems while increasing productivity.

Julian Lieb, a psychiatrist in private practice and former director of the Dana Psychiatric Clinic at Yale-New Haven Hospital, and D. Jablow Hershman authored Brotherhood of Tyrants: Manic Depression and Absolute Power.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Julian Lieb, M.D., a psychiatrist in private practice and former director of the Dana Psychiatric Clinic at Yale-New Haven Hospital, and artist and novelist D. Jablow Hershmann are the authors of A Brotherhood of Tyrants: Manic Depression and Absolute Power.

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Titel: Manic Depression and Creativity
Verlag: Prometheus
Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: Good