title: The enigmatic relationship of creativity to mental health and psychopathology.
abstract: Creativity is a capacity with many faces, some sublime, others pathological, and still others somewhere in between. Creativity plus the talent to use it are the necessary ingredients of the great artist. People who have had the experience of emotional depths and who have had talent may constitute the majority of artists. Those with talent who have been taken over by their emotions may still be great artists--but there is a difference.
authors.affiliation: UCLA School of Medicine 90024.
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Grotstein
mesh_terms: D001076:Aptitude; D003405:Creativity; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D008603:Mental Health; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory