that there is a relationship between mental disorder and genius, has long been known and there is a confirmation of life.
for Example, a talented writer Ernest Hemingway suffered from blackouts and depression and committed suicide. The great actress of the twentieth century were prone to alcoholism and killed himself – it was Marilyn Monroe. The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche all his life was suffering from melancholy, while the famous Frenchman Jean-Paul Sartre had used stimulants and alcohol, which help regulate your mood and sleep. And this rather sad portrait gallery, you can extend the examples to incredible sizes.
Only two hundred years ago schizophrenia and melancholy are highlighted among other things the number of mental illness – was considered a source of creativity. H Lombroso (1835 – 1909) was convinced that the genius is just one of the forms of insanity. It is possible, as an echo of this setup (or as creative reality?), recent studies emphasize the role of depression and mania that accompany the way of life of many creative people. According to the California psychologists (Goertzel et al, 1978) reported a 10% excess of mental disorders in their surveyed group of creative individuals, as compared with the control sample. Discuss the point fully support clinicians, consistently exhibiting the close connection between mental illness and creativity.
G. Eysenck (1993) also suggests that psychotism – as a personality trait characterizing extreme behavior and way of thinking - is the basis of many forms of creativity.
so, consider the portrait of a genius. What's he like?
Portrait of a genius.
In ordinary consciousness there is inevitably an image of professors is not of this world, or with the mystical gift of the artist's works. It seems that the image of the mysterious genius does not include any traits of "mere mortals". Many psychological theories have experienced the pressure of these everyday stereotypes.
While psychologists have repeatedly expressed the opinion that "the greatness of leaders is less a consequence of their personalities, but to a much greater extent it is determined that they are in the right place at the right time", today, no one would challenge the existence of a certain set of individual properties that distinguish the overall cohort of geniuses from the rest of the people.
Among the variety of characteristics that describe the creative person, it is possible to allocate 7 basic criteria peculiar to the creative actors the unusual attitude and behavior:
the independence of opinions and judgments conformist;
-the desire to go beyond, "to break the boundaries of" originality and irregularity;
- resistance to uncertain situations;
- constructive activity in the subject;
- force I associated with the possibility of Autonomous functioning and resistance to pressure social environment;
- openness to everything new and unusual;
- sensitivity to beauty in the wider sense of the word.
for many centuries, there is a dispute about where is the line between creativity and pathology of genius, and mad gusts of inspiration and crazy desperate acts of consciousness.
Not every person is a genius or has an enviable talent, but everyone is able to do that is to create a new – in himself, in others or in the outside objective world. Creativity as a special form of activity is crucial to prevent human violations of adaptation, or in other words, creativity is the prevention of destruction of personality, and various forms of maladjustment.
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