Analyst and author Ann Belford Ulanov draws on her years of clinical work and reflection to make the point that madness and creativity share a kinship, an insig

Intrigued by history's list of "troubled geniuses,"Albert Rothenberg investigates how two such opposite conditions—outstanding creativity and psychosis—coul

This collection of essays explores the relation between literature and madness from the Medieval through to the Modern period. The essays examine how literature

Rates of mental illness are hugely elevated in the families of poets, writers and artists, suggesting that the same genes, the same temperaments, and the same i

This book re-examines the common view that a high level of individual creativity often correlates with a heightened risk of mental illness.