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Creativity and mental illness

A study of 60 creative patients who needed hospitalization

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    Philip S. Herbert Jr. M.D.

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Herbert, P.S. Creativity and mental illness. Psych Quar 33, 534–547 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01563109

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