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Running Head: CREATIVITY AND MOOD DISORDERS

Creativity and Mood Disorders

Abstract
The link between "madness" and creativity is explored. In particular, unipolar disorder and bipolar disorder are discussed. The article Manic Depressive Illness and Creativity by Kay Redfield Jamison is used to reference the link between both unipolar disorder and bipolar disorder and creativity.

Creativity and Mood Disorders
More than two thousand years ago, the great philosopher Aristotle proclaimed, "No great genius has ever been without some divine madness." History has long painted the idea that mental turmoil and creativity go hand in hand. There are many examples of great artists, musicians, poets and novelists who exhibit the classic signs of major mood disorders, such as depression and bipolar disorder. Poets and novelists who wrote about their "savage moods," include: William Blake, Alfred Lord Tennyson, John Berryman, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Ernest Hemingway, and......

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