One of the most extensive studies that has been performed and published recently was executed by Swedish researchers of the Karolinska Institute, one of Europe’s biggest and most notable medical universities.
Over forty years, the study supervised about 1.2 million patients and their relatives in order to prove a link between mental illness and creativity, also focusing on people who exert artistic or scientific professions and their higher risk of falling sick with various mental illnesses.
In 2011, the team of researchers could proof that children being brought up in a family where a mental illness, particularly bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, is present are more likely to become artists and scientists later in life, compared to the entire Swedish population. …show more content…
Furthermore it could be proven that to each creative profession a particular mental illness can be assigned. For example, authors are almost 50 percent more likely to take their own lives than the general population since depression is most prevalent in authors and poets.
Simon Kyaga who is a psychiatric consultant and one of the researchers at Karolinska Institute, states that the results “give cause to reconsider approaches to mental illness”.
In his opinion, the study refutes the clinical effectiveness of seeing mental diseases in black-and-white terms, which has been the traditional method of therapy for many
Over forty years, the study supervised about 1.2 million patients and their relatives in order to prove a link between mental illness and creativity, also focusing on people who exert artistic or scientific professions and their higher risk of falling sick with various mental illnesses.
In 2011, the team of researchers could proof that children being brought up in a family where a mental illness, particularly bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, is present are more likely to become artists and scientists later in life, compared to the entire Swedish population. …show more content…
Furthermore it could be proven that to each creative profession a particular mental illness can be assigned. For example, authors are almost 50 percent more likely to take their own lives than the general population since depression is most prevalent in authors and poets.
Simon Kyaga who is a psychiatric consultant and one of the researchers at Karolinska Institute, states that the results “give cause to reconsider approaches to mental illness”.
In his opinion, the study refutes the clinical effectiveness of seeing mental diseases in black-and-white terms, which has been the traditional method of therapy for many