Bipolar Mood Disorder, Creativity and Schizotypy: An Experimental Study

Rybakowski, Janusz; Klonowska, Paulina

doi:10.1159/000322814

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“…The data suggest that these personality types and disorders can be located along the continuum between schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and normality, which corresponds to current dimensional views on psychiatric diagnostics [20]. The association between creativity and schizotypal characteristics in bipolar patients further supports this dimensional view [21]. Remarkably, this view also reconciles the Jamison-Sass controversy (both are right).…”

Section: Current Scientific Views On Creativity and Psychopathologysupporting

confidence: 75%

Creativity and Psychiatric Illness: The Search for a Missing Link - An Historical Context for Current Research

Thys¹,

Sabbe²,

Hert³

2012

Psychopathology

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Creativity is an important human quality upon which many achievements of humankind are based. Defined as the ability to produce something that is novel and useful or meaningful, it is difficult to operationalize for research. This text provides an overview of the historical and cultural context of this research. The assumption that creativity is related to psychiatric vulnerability dates back to antiquity. The modern interest in the subject stems from the romantic era and gained a scientific aura in the 19th century. In the 20th century, a further entanglement of creativity and psychopathology came about through the influence of patient artists on regular art. Psychometric, psychodiagnostic and genetic research supports a connection between creativity and psychiatric illness within the bipolar-psychotic continuum, with schizotypy/thymotypy as prototypes of creativity-related disorders. Evolutionary hypotheses link the schizophrenia paradox to a survival advantage through enhanced creative ability. The relevance of scientific research in this complex and heterogeneous area can be increased if creativity and psychopathology are further operationalized and if underlying art concepts are made explicit and placed in a broader cultural context. There is a continuing need for meaningful definitions and measures, as well as a multidisciplinary collaboration.

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Section: Current Scientific Views On Creativity and Psychopathologysupporting

confidence: 75%

Creativity and Psychiatric Illness: The Search for a Missing Link - An Historical Context for Current Research

Thys¹,

Sabbe²,

Hert³

2012

Psychopathology

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“…Many studies have demonstrated strong associations between schizotypal personality traits and enhanced performance on tests of creativity and fluency, as well as elevated levels of schizotypy in individuals active in the creative arts [48,55,84,114,115,116,117,118,119,120,121,122,123,124]. Interestingly, this association between creativity and schizotypal traits is also observed in bipolar patients, who score higher than controls on several measures of schizotypy [116,125,126]. Several of the personality traits discussed above with relationships to creativity, namely, neuroticism, openness, and cyclothymic temperament, are correlated with positive schizotypal traits [127,128,129].…”

Section: Bipolar Disorder Schizophrenia and Their Common Connectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Positive Traits in the Bipolar Spectrum: The Space between Madness and Genius

Greenwood¹

2016

Complex Psychiatry

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Bipolar disorder is a severe, lifelong mood disorder for which little is currently understood of the genetic mechanisms underlying risk. By examining related dimensional phenotypes, we may further our understanding of the disorder. Creativity has a historical connection with the bipolar spectrum and is particularly enhanced among unaffected first-degree relatives and those with bipolar spectrum traits. This suggests that some aspects of the bipolar spectrum may confer advantages, while more severe expressions of symptoms negatively influence creative accomplishment. Creativity is a complex, multidimensional construct with both cognitive and affective components, many of which appear to reflect a shared genetic vulnerability with bipolar disorder. It is suggested that a subset of bipolar risk variants confer advantages as positive traits according to an inverted-U-shaped curve with clinically unaffected allele carriers benefitting from the positive traits and serving to maintain the risk alleles in the population. The association of risk genes with creativity in healthy individuals (e.g., NRG1), as well as an overall sharing of common genetic variation between bipolar patients and creative individuals, provides support for this model. Current findings are summarized from a multidisciplinary perspective to demonstrate the feasibility of research in this area to reveal the mechanisms underlying illness.

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“…To some researchers like Jameson (1993) and Baroun&Herinton (1981), creativity is a structure that is a made of emothional and cognitive components (Srivasta et al, 2010). Creativity can be described as a combination of ideas and behaviors that both of them are important for the life (Rybakowski et al 2008). Creativity is any idea, procedure or product that significantly change the present status (Thys et al 2013).…”

Section: Creativitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It can be said that mental steps that led to an invention, solution or the new combination in any field, are creativity poles and creative thinking. Cognitive features along with creativity include thinking skills such as divergent thinking (Rybakowski et al 2008). Gilford (1976) believes that the creativity can be activated and motioned in people through stimulation.…”

Section: Creativitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Creativity, thinking style and mental disorders

Fouladi

Shahidi²

2016

J. Fundam and Appl Sci.

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Creativity is considered as a soundand desirable feature. In cognitive approach, it is assumed that human though effects on his behavior. All human's success and progress depends on dynamic, fruitful and effective thinking. As we know, thinking style of people with his attitude and lifestyle. People with pragmatismthinking style are more flexible and show more creativity and innovation than the others and also they have enough skill to plan for unexpected days. Creativity has a significant effect on reduction of anxiety and depression, enhancing of better adaptability, self-efficiency and personal development. Creating and enhancing of creativity in the form of meta-cognitive, character and motivation components can have a high effect on improving mental health, self-efficiency and dealing with mental stress. Creativity can also treat the mental disorders. Today, methods to improvecreativity are a technique to enhance the mental health in the society. In this article, we study the relationship among the creativity, thinking styles and a number of mental disorders.

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Bipolar Mood Disorder, Creativity and Schizotypy: An Experimental Study

Cited by 41 publications

References 44 publications

Creativity and Psychiatric Illness: The Search for a Missing Link - An Historical Context for Current Research

Creativity and Psychiatric Illness: The Search for a Missing Link - An Historical Context for Current Research

Positive Traits in the Bipolar Spectrum: The Space between Madness and Genius

Creativity, thinking style and mental disorders

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