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SOME PSYCHIATRIC CONSIDERATIONS CONCERNING CREATIVE WRITING AND CRITICISM

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.112.6.423

Certain theoretical aspects of psychiatric causes concerning creative writing and criticism are presented and discussed. Emphasis is placed on present-day concepts of neural mechanisms,"engrams," and with implications that mechanistic factors and conditioning experiences may play an important role in the output of the so-called "creative writer."

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