TY - BOOK ID - 128140708 TI - Strong imagination : madness, creativity and human nature PY - 2001 SN - 0198605005 PB - Oxford : Oxford university press, DB - UniCat KW - Art and mental illness. KW - Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.). KW - Genius and mental illness. KW - Insanity. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:128140708 AB - Rates of mental illness are hugely elevated in the families of poets, writers and artists, suggesting that the same genes, the same temperaments, and the same imaginative capacities are at work in insanity and in creative ability. Thus the reason madness continues to exist is that the traits behind it have psychological benefits as well as psychological costs. In Strong Imagination, Daniel Nettle explores the nature of mental illness, the biological mechanisms that underlie it, and its link to creative genius. He goes on to consider the place of both madness and creative imagination in the evolution of our species. ER -