Abstract

This article examines current thinking regarding the relation between creativity and psychopathology in the historical context of the changes in the intellectual assumptions regarding the nature of creative individuals during four periods of Western history: Greek antiquity, the Italian Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the Romantic Age. Particular attention is devoted to the romantics’ reformulation of historically antecedent ideas, including the conception of genius, and the subsequent reception of these changes in the field of philosophical–psychological speculation and the rising medical specialty of psychiatry. The article concludes with a discussion of some of the implications of these developments for current debates concerning creativity and attendant mental conditions.

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