Creative Genius or Psychotic?

[Lulletje Rozewater]

This paper postulates that there is a strong positive correlation between traits associated with creativity and traits associated with psychoses. Indeed, some of the relevant traits are shared. There are several traits that go hand in hand with creativity. It will be shown that two of these "creative" traits, latent inhibition and fantasy proneness, also have a strong positive correlation with certain psychoses. As intelligence and creativity are often linked, we will also discuss intelligence as it relates to creativity. Thus it will be shown how latent inhibition, intelligence, and fantasy proneness all factor into a theory of how creativity and psychoses are intertwined.


http://www.personalityresearch.org/papers/byrd.html

[Agrippa]

Nothing new actually. The difference is just that healthy genius people being stabilised on a certain level, the psychotic persons not.

Thats true for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder beside other psychosis and was noted by psychologists of the old school already, not always correct in detail, but with certain excellent observations like E. Kretschmer and others.

[Loddfafner]

Not every psychotic is some unrecognized genius.

[Lulletje Rozewater]

Nothing new actually. The difference is just that healthy genius people being stabilised on a certain level, the psychotic persons not.

Thats true for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder beside other psychosis and was noted by psychologists of the old school already, not always correct in detail, but with certain excellent observations like E. Kretschmer and others.

I came across this test
http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/alientest.html

and more here

http://www.psychwww.com/resource/bytopic/testing.html

Psychotic tests are not allowed in SA we all know why

[Idun]

This paper postulates that there is a strong positive correlation between traits associated with creativity and traits associated with psychoses. Indeed, some of the relevant traits are shared. There are several traits that go hand in hand with creativity.

Vincent Van Gogh is probably a good example of this phenomenon.

[Poltergeist]

Not every psychotic is some unrecognized genius.

Many people confound these two things. Somewhere they read that all (or most of) geniuses are somewhat loony in this way or another - which is in certain sense true. Therefrom they, entirely illogically, deduce also the inverse: namely, that every loony must be a genius.

[anonymaus]

lei.talk and I were recently discussing the concomitant and parallel curves of intelligence and psychopathology.

we concluded that it seems to be more of a propensity for psychopathology, which behavioural training and discipline can sometimes overcome.