Hunting the Muse

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Creativity and Madness: New Findings and Old Stereotypes, by Albert Rothenberg, is published by The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore (£16.50, 199 pp., 1990). Professor Rothenberg is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard University and Director of Research at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. He is principal investigator for the project ‘Studies in the creativity process'.