Creativity and mental illness: prevalence rates in writers and their first-degree relatives
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- 1 October 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 144 (10) , 1288-1292
Abstract
Rates of mental illness were examined in 30 creative writers, 30 matched control subjects, and the first-degree relatives of both groups. The writers had a substantially higher rate of mental illne...Keywords
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