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Many experts see link between art, manic depression.(Nation)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 19960912
Author:Price, Joyce

The old adage that "there is no great genius without some touch of madness" may well be true.

A growing number of psychologists, psychiatrists and even neuroscientists suggest that bipolar illness, a mental disorder commonly known as manic depression, improves the ability to create art. That argument is the subject of a report in the October issue of Discover magazine.

Johns Hopkins psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison, described by Discover as "a point person in the art-and-madness link," believes that many tormented artists, including John Keats, William Blake, Percy ...

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