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Am J Psychiatry 112:423-429, December 1955
doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.112.6.423
© 1955 American Psychiatric Association
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SOME PSYCHIATRIC CONSIDERATIONS CONCERNING CREATIVE WRITING AND CRITICISM

MERRILL MOORE M. D.

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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