The Sparks of Generative Creativity in Mental Disorders - jeremy hadfield
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how some disorders magnify the creative process and what we can learn from them
“Almost everywhere it was madness which prepared the way for the new idea, which broke the spell of a venerated usage and superstition. Do you understand why it had to be madness which did this?” — Nietzsche, Daybreak #14 How could ‘madness’ be helpful for idea-generation, brainstorming, artistic expression, and other creative processes? Mental disorders, as neural-cognitive differences that often misalign with a social context, may enable the kinds of divergence that contribute to creativity. I argue that conditions like bipolar disorder, Tourette’s syndrome, and ADHD (the ‘C-disorders’)…
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