Strong Imagination: Madness, Creativity, and Human Nature

ISBN-13: 9780198605003 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 248 str.

Daniel Nettle

Opis

This study sets out to explore the link between madness - the greatest mystery of the human psyche - and artistic creativity.

Recenzje

Nettle writes well. He enlivens the scientific data with fascinating clinical vignettes, anthropological observations and well-chosen quotations from Shakespeare...a readable and up-to-date review of a very large body of literature on a fascinating subject.

O autorze

Daniel Nettle studied psychology at the University of Oxford and then moved to University College London to carry out his PhD research in anthropology. He has written widely across several areas in the human sciences and has lectured in London, Oxford, Cambridge, and Nigeria. He lives in Oxford.