Does mental illness enhance creativity?

•  02 03 2016
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•  BBC Future

Everyone can cite famous people from Vincent Van Gogh and Virginia Woolf to Tony Hancock and Robin Williams, who were exceptionally creative and experienced mental health problems. However there is remarkably little good data on the link between creativity and mental illness.

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