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Maijs 5., 2009
11:09 - : there is no great genius without a tincture of madness
"One study found that the incidence of mood disorders, suicide and institutionalisation to be 20 times higher among major British and Irish poets in the 200 years up to 1800.
Other studies have shown that psychiatric patients perform better in tests of abstract thinking.
Another study, based on 291 eminent and creative men in different fields, found that 69 per cent had a mental disorder of some kind.
Scientists were the least affected, while artists and writers had increased diagnoses of psychosis."
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