The link between mental illness and creativity. Myth?

[Clint]

Schizotypal People Seem to Be More Creative

Continuing the discussion from Being sz there is no magical cure: (I didn’t want to hijack the original thread. And, this is an old discussion, going back to the times of the ancient Greeks, actually.) I haven’t known many schizophrenics, as far as I know. As far as the scientific literature goes, though, there seems to be clear evidence that ‘schizotypal’ people are more creative than the general populace. Maybe the ‘schizophrenics’ you knew were truly schizophrenics. By contrast, many of us here who were diagnosed with schizophrenia were later told that psychiatrists that our original diagnosis was wrong, and we weren’t schizophrenics. I’m not a professional scientist, but it seems s…