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Creativity and Mental Disorder
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Creativity and Mental Disorder

With our focus on creativity and mental health, we were very interested to come across an extensive article connecting the two subjects from the Royal College of Psychiatrists. In this piece Dr John Morgan, now Professor John Morgan explores the links between the creativity of several renowned artists, authors, poets and other luminaries in relation to their mental health. The article was written and originally published as part of the college’s ‘Changing Minds’ campaign. This ran between 1997 and 2003 seeking to improve the public’s knowledge of mental health issues and thus helping to reduce the stigma all too often suffered by those affected.
With thanks to Professor John F Morgan and the Royal College of Psychiatrists, as well as the National Portrait Gallery for the illustrations used.

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Creativity and Mental Health: New Research

The latest research relating to connections between mental health and creativity has just been referenced on the BBC News site. We’d thought we’d republish a link here.

After a quick straw poll around the office and friends we’re all agreed that everyone has some creativity in them and as mentioned in our About section, we all tread a fine line between wellness and dis-ease, whether we consider ourselves creative or not.

Here’s a link to the BBC news story: Creativity ‘closely entwined with mental illness’ by Michelle Roberts

What do you think?

Since writing this piece we came across the following blog post by Howard Robinson on ‘The Unofficial Blog for Brit Writers and Writers Everywhere!’  It refers to the same research as the BBC and adds some interesting comment to the whole question, from a writer’s perspective. With thanks to Brit Writers and Howard Robinson.

Here’s the link: http:  You don’t have to be mad to be a writer, but maybe it helps!  by Howard Robinson