schizophrenia – Alex Berezow

Creative People Really Are a Little Crazy

The notion that highly creative people tend to be eccentric or even a little “crazy” is not just a stereotype.

Less than 1% of the variance in cannabis use could be explained by an underlying genetic predisposition to schizophrenia.

“The Freudian notion that ‘dreams are the royal road to the unconscious’ is clinically useful, after all.”