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  • Lange-Eichbauml found that, of a group he considered the outstanding geniuses in human history, almost a half had at some time suffered fronl psychosis

  • To give but a few examples: Sir Isaac Newton and Michael Faraday were psychotic by middle age, Oliver Cromwell and Abraham Lincoln had their spells of madness, as had William Pitt the Elder and Younger

  • Insanity might be linked to genius in corollary fashion, i.e. close blood relatives might show an elevated risk of psychosis

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Lange-Eichbauml found that, of a group he considered the outstanding geniuses in human history, almost a half had at some time suffered fronl psychosis. Karlsson[2] showed, in a sample of 132 world-famous creative persons, that their lifetime risk of psychosis was consistently of the order of 25--40 per cent (philosophers having the highest rate). Various personality (MMPI)l,4 and projective (Rorschach)' test studies have purported to demonstrate a 'schizophrenic' personality structure in persons of creative genius, such as renowned American architects, painters and writers.

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