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1218 – The Link Between Creativity And Bipolar Disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2020

S. Gomes ,
M. Lima Peixoto  and
O. Campos
S. Gomes
Affiliation:
Hospital Magalhães Lemos, Porto, Portugal
M. Lima Peixoto
Affiliation:
Hospital Magalhães Lemos, Porto, Portugal
O. Campos
Affiliation:
Hospital Magalhães Lemos, Porto, Portugal

Abstract

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Artists are valued for their ability to capture, express and engender states of intense emotion. Regular experience and sharing of intense emotions may challenge a preexisting mood regulation vulnerability.

A series of studies have revealed particularly strong associations between mood disorders, especially bipolar disorder, and creativity. Specifically, recent findings demonstrate that bipolar disorder patients and highly creative individuals have certain personality/ temperamental commonalities, which in turn may predispose them to increased creativity.

The aim of this review is to reflect and discuss, based on a revision of the scientific literature, this apparent association between creativity and bipolar disorder.

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European Psychiatry , Volume 28 , Issue S1: Abstracts of the 21th European Congress of Psychiatry , 2013 , 28-E586
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