{"id":421,"date":"2012-12-05T13:59:21","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T13:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/algeriecollege.com\/info\/?p=421"},"modified":"2012-12-05T13:59:21","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T13:59:21","slug":"genius-or-madness-the-psychology-of-creativity-professor-glenn-d-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/algerienetwork.com\/sciences-tec\/genius-or-madness-the-psychology-of-creativity-professor-glenn-d-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"Genius or Madness? The Psychology of Creativity &#8211; Professor Glenn D. Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/algerienetwork.com\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/glen.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a>\u00ab\u00a0Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide\u00a0\u00bb (Dryden) There often seems to be a link between creativity and mental illness.\u00a0 Many great poets, playwrights, artists and composers suffered from depression, alcoholism, obsessionality, bipolar or psychotic disorders at some time in their lives.\u00a0 How strong is the link and what might account for it?\u00a0 Are these disorders beneficial to the creative process or a drawback that must be overcome?<br \/>\nThe transcript and downloadable versions of all of the lectures are available from the Gresham College website: <a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/www.gresham.ac.uk\/lectures-and-events\/genius-or-madness\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gresham.ac.uk\/lectures-and-events\/genius-or-madness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.gresham.ac.uk\/lectures-and-events\/genius-or-madness<\/a><br \/>\nGresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This tradition continues today with all of our five or so public lectures a week being made available for free download from our website. There is currently nearly 1,500 lectures free to access or download from the website. Website:\u00a0 <a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/www.gresham.ac.uk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gresham.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.gresham.ac.uk<\/a> Twitter:\u00a0 <a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/GreshamCollege\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/GreshamCollege\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/GreshamCollege<\/a> Facebook: <a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Gresham-College\/14011689941\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Gresham-College\/14011689941\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Gresham-College\/14011689941<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nje--J7fsfw\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00ab\u00a0Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide\u00a0\u00bb (Dryden) There often seems to be a link between creativity and mental illness.\u00a0 Many great poets, playwrights, artists and composers suffered from depression, alcoholism, obsessionality, bipolar or psychotic disorders at some time in their lives.\u00a0 How strong is the link [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cognition"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/algerienetwork.com\/sciences-tec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/algerienetwork.com\/sciences-tec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/algerienetwork.com\/sciences-tec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/algerienetwork.com\/sciences-tec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/algerienetwork.com\/sciences-tec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/algerienetwork.com\/sciences-tec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/algerienetwork.com\/sciences-tec\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/algerienetwork.com\/sciences-tec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/algerienetwork.com\/sciences-tec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/algerienetwork.com\/sciences-tec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}