Am J Psychiatry 1987; 144:1288-1292
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Creativity and mental illness: prevalence rates in writers and their first-degree relatives
NC Andreasen
Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City 52242.
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 illness, predominantly
affective disorder, with a tendency toward the bipolar subtype. There was
also a higher prevalence of affective disorder and creativity in the
writers' first-degree relatives, suggesting that these traits run together
in families and could be genetically mediated. Both writers and control
subjects had IQs in the superior range; the writers excelled only on the
WAIS vocabulary subtest, confirming previous observations that intelligence
and creativity are independent mental abilities.
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