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Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz
2000
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- La creatividad y la psicopatología Ma. del Carmen Lara Rosa Aurora Chávez Medicina genius Creativity psychopathology What is the relation between creativity and psychopathology?Does psychopathology facilitate creativity? Does creativeactivity induce psychopathology? We expose here an historicalbibliographic review, in search of responses to these questionsposed from ancient Greece to these days.For Plato, talent was the enthusiasm which drags one awayfrom oneself. For Aristotle, creativity was a rational processoriginated in nature, but he noticed that the greatest artists andscientists were melancholic. In the Middle Ages the idea of anassociation between creativity and mental pathology arose. In1867, Maudsley postulated that genius was the maximumexpression of human potentiality and of mental abnormality. In1869, Galton began his scientific study on creativity. Since thenseveral researchers have studied it by means of: a) biographicalstudies (Juda, Fernandes da Fonseca, Ludwig, Jamison,Schildkraut, Post, Espinel, who found a there was strongerrelation between creativity and affective disorders, speciallybipolar spectrum, in artists); b) research on the psychopathologyof creative living subjects (Andreasen, Ludwig, Mraz and Runco),and c) research on the creativity of psychiatric patients (Jamison,Steinberg, Richards, Crowell, Stoll, Berrettini, Miller, Dowker).We also reviewed the concepts of Peréz-Rincón, Whybrow,Silverman, Pöldinger and Rothenberg. Dabrowski, in his positivedesintegration theory, suggested that psychoneurosis is criticalto development. In a person with a strong potential, symptomsmay be a sign of his high developmental potencial, wich can beused for becoming an authentic, autonomous human being.Kopacz and Janikak explained the association betweencreativity and bipolar disorder: creativity is the product of bipolardesease; creativity and bipolar disease are different but theyhave related genes, and creative temperament is phenomenologicallysimilar to hipomania. However, we agree with Federsconcept: creativity is a natural process implying ambivalenceas well as procreativity. 2000 artículo científico 0185-3325 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=58252301 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=582 Salud Mental application/pdf Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz Salud Mental (México) Num.5 Vol.23