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How do we define "abnormal" behavior? - Kellevision - 0 views

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  • Psychologists believe that a number of famous creative luminaries, including Vincent Van Gogh, Albert Einstein, Emily Dickinson and Isaac Newton, had schizotypal personalities.
  • How would this have affected their creativity? 
    • Lauren Ganze
      Lauren Ganze on 04 Apr 12
       
      Would've stifled their creativity and individual expressions.
  • David Icke
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  • The professor suggested the following definition for identifying the point at which behaviors become "abnormal" and warrant psychological intervention:
  • When the client experiences the behavior as being problematic, or finds the behavior to be interfering with their functioning to the point they are unable to participate fully in their lives, as they define them.
  • 1) eat2) sleep3) interact with others as they wish to4) work, as they define it5) perform adequate self care, as they define it (i.e. hygiene, medical care)
  • Lauren Ganze on 04 Apr 12
     
    defining abnormal
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The Schizophrenic Artist - Kellevision - 0 views

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  • Schizophrenia.  I always remember his story when I hear of clients being "noncompliant" and refusing their psychiatric medications. 
  • This client tried m
  • any different psychiatric medications over the course of about two years
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  • But the medications were a problem.
    • Lauren Ganze
      Lauren Ganze on 04 Apr 12
       
      Aren't they supposed to help?
  • The client was a brilliant artist and this was a significant part of his identity. 
  • tranquilized his creativity.
  • conscious decision to stop taking his medications.
  • He had a great deal of difficulty tolerating crowds of people and noise.  But his art returned.
  • His art gave his life purpose and meaning
  • He lived to create and expressing himself artistically made the suffering in his mind bearable.
  • They valued his art and understood this was the price he paid to express it.
  • He expressed happiness at his decision to stop medications and delight at the return of his art and with it his identity and purpose as an artist.
  • noncompliant
    • Lauren Ganze
      Lauren Ganze on 04 Apr 12
       
      Seriously, who does that? He's happy, he has friends who understand him, and he survives perfectly fine
  • Lauren Ganze on 04 Apr 12
     
    a schizophrenic who refused to continue medication because it "tranquilized" his creativity
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The Unexpected Link Between Schizophrenia and Creativity | Suite101.com - 0 views

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  • Schizophrenia in itself is a maladaptive phenomenon
  • genes for paranoia encourage a healthy defensiveness in threatening environments
  • the only substantial research exploring a positive social benefit for psychosis has focused on creativity.
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  • just the right degree of social strife to facilitate the splitting of overlarge groups in primitive societies
    • Lauren Ganze
      Lauren Ganze on 04 Apr 12
       
      Creativity is definitely an advantage
  • Perhaps some of their executive problems, for example their problems with verbal fluency tests, can actually give rise to creativity?
  • general agreement that creativity involves the production of novel, useful products"
  • multi-trait, multi-method analyses
  • produce novel and quality ideas and products.
  • A schizophrenic's abnormal behaviour and communication styles may in fact lead to incredible and unique creativity,
  • over-inclusive thinking, would facilitate originality which, in optimum circumstances, would lead to creativity.
  • Nancy Andreasen (2006) and Kay Redfield Jamison (1994) have done, finding high levels of mood disturbance and disorder in their samples of creative writers and artists, supporting this link between psychosis and creativity
  • claims to link genius with madness.
  • DARPP-32
  • Three quarters of all people inherit a version of this gene; it then enhances the brain’s ability to think by improving the information processing in the prefrontal cortex.
  • his gene also shapes and controls the nerve circuit closely involved with schizophrenia, hence the connection between genius and madness.
  • This also suggests that schizophrenia may be the downside to an evolutionary change that improved our chances of survival and our fitness, by improving our intelligence and creativity.
  • He found that first-degree relatives of psychotic patients are found to be more successful in attaining recognition in several fields of intellectual endeavour than the general population of the area in which he studied: Iceland. He also found that the fields in which they attained recognition were areas of creative and scholarly excellence.
  • It could be perhaps that although psychosis can cause enhanced creativity, the patient is too inhibited by their condition to use it to their advantage.
  • The importance of creativity for mankind is undeniable
  • Meyer-Lindenberg and colleagues in the NIMH Genes, Cognition and Psychosis program
  • Lauren Ganze on 04 Apr 12
     
    link between schizophrenia and creativity - may be evolutionary
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