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Ten Psychotic Authors
Gordon Claridge, Ruth Pryor, and Gwen Watkins
Malor Books, 1998
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Readers will understand similarities and differences between psychotic and creative processes.
This innovative book takes a unique approach to the question of how creativity and madness may be related. The authors, an academic/clinical psychologist, a mediaevalist, and a critic of Victorian literature, administered the SADS-L (Schedule of Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia-Lifetime version) in absentia to ten deceased authors based on biographical information.
Most studies of the relation between madness and creativity are done either by literary experts who 'psychologize' about their subjects in ignorance of psychology, or by clinicians who write from a particular, usually psychoanalytic, point of view. This book does not decry psychoanalysis, but in addition to its view, adds those of genetics, experimental abnormal and clinical psychology, personality research, and descriptive psychiatry.
Gordon Claridge is a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and University Lecturer in Abnormal Psychology. Ruth Pryor is a mediaevalist, and Gwen Watkins is a critic of Victorian literature.
10 CE credits; 247 pages
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