http://www.apa.org/monitor/nov03/creativity.aspx

What exactly is creativity?
Psychologists continue their quest to better understand creativity.

By KAREN KERSTING
Monitor Staff
November 2003, Vol 34, No. 10
Print version: page 40

In the same sense, artists tend to show higher rates of mental illness and related symptoms than the average population, Simonton says, citing numerous empirical studies, including recent work by Arnold Ludwig, PhD, Kay Jamison, PhD, and James Kaufman, PhD (see page 42). "If you look just within the arts, there are styles that are very realistic and more expressionistic--the more expressionistic the art form, the more likely the artist is to have a mental illness," he says. (Dean Keith Simonton)