Lecture by Paul Hoff: Creativity and Illness

Psychiatric diagnoses condense information and structure professional communication. However, far more than in other areas of medicine, they are interwoven with the socio-cultural context and the prevailing conception of humanity. A connection between giftedness and mental illness has been a subject of controversial debate since antiquity. Psychiatry must neither uncritically pathologize exceptional creativity nor downplay an actual illness. The "Sils examples" of Annemarie Schwarzenbach and Friedrich Nietzsche serve as illustrations.

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