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Index
Cover
Half title
Title
Copyright
Epigraph
Contents
Figures
Tables
Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I Creativity and mental illness: the state of the field
1 A socio-historical overview of the creativity-pathology connection: from antiquity to contemporary times1
2 The mad (creative) genius: what do we know after a century of historiometric research?
3 Reviewing recent empirical findings on creativity and mental illness
4 Building connections on sand: the cautionary chapter
Part II Cognitive and neuroscientific perspectives on creativity and mental illness
5 Neurocognitive mechanisms underlying creative thinking: indications from studies of mental illness
6 The evolutionary genetics of the creativity-psychosis connection
7 Non-linearity in creativity and mental illness: the mixed blessings of chaos, catastrophe, and noise in brain and behavior
8 Artists’ vulnerability to psychopathology: an integrative cognitive perspective
Part III Creativity and the spectrum of mental illness
9 Creativity and the spectrum of affective and schizophrenic psychoses
10 When good is bad and bad is good: mood, bipolarity, and creativity
11 Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and creativity: ever the twain shall meet?
Part IV Creativity and mental illness: possible commonalities
12 The shared vulnerability model of creativity and psychopathology
13 On the fragility of the artist: art’s precarious triad
14 Creativity as “compensatory advantage”: bipolar and schizophrenic liability, the inverted-U hypothesis, and practical implications
Part V Creativity and mental health
15 Bringing the whole universe to order: creativity, healing, and posttraumatic growth
16 Inspiration and the creative process
17 King Solomon and psychoneuroimmunology: creativity and life coping
Part VI Creativity and mental illness: what now?
18 Ruminating about mental illness and creativity
19 Creativity and mental illness: reasons to care and beware
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