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Creativity and mood disorder: Part II (Taylor, 2017)

“for an artist, finding a look or a style that falls within the available possibilities of art, yet is different enough from anything that has come before it, is both the ideal and also a near impossibility.” David Salle

Creativity and Mood Disorder Part II 2019 for note taking

Note: Mood Disorders include

Major Depressive Disorder

Dysthymic Disorder

Bipolar I (manic episode)

Bipolar ii (at least one hypomanic and at least one depressive episode)

Cyclothymic (cycling between intermittent or alternating depressive and hypomanic symptoms)

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Results of meta-analysis

Mood disorder vs control on creativity

Creativity and Mood Disorder Part II 2019 for note taking

Mood Disorder

Creativity

Creativity in Individuals with Mood disorder versus control

The overall effect size was small and not statistically significant (p. 1056).

The effect of mood disorder on creativity is influenced by type of mood disorder … (p.1057).

Unspecific BP, cyclothymic disorder, and MDD (small effects) suggested that individuals with these types of disorder exhibit greater creativity than controls (p. 1057).

The effect of dysthymic disorder on creativity was again significant and negative (p. 1057).

Significant (albeit small), positive effects were found in the verbal and performance domains only, suggesting that individual with mood disorder exhibit greater creativity in these domains than controls.

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Results of meta-analysis

2. Creativity vs control on mood disorder

Creativity and Mood Disorder Part II 2019 for note taking

Mood Disorder

Creativity

Mood Disorder in Creative versus control

Moderate to large effect size

Creative individuals exhibit greater mood disorder than noncreative individuals (p.1052).

Significant amount of heterogeneity among effect sizes (p. 1052).

Effect sizes for almost all of the disorders were positive (indicating that creative individuals exhibited greater disorder than controls), the effect size for dysthymic disorder was negative… (p. 1053).

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Results of meta-analysis

3. Covariance of creativity and mood disorder

Positive associations with mood disorder

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Creativity

Mood Disorder

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Unknown Third Variable

Compensatory Advantage Model:

Creativity and mood disorder as different expression of same genes.

Inverted U: mild form of disorder or familial history leads to enhanced creativity. High levels decrease it.

Shared Vulnerability Model:

Cognitive vulnerability characteristics (decreased latent inhibition, increased novelty seeking, neural hyperconnectivity) may manifest as enhanced creativity.

These characteristics must be paired with high levels of protective factors (IQ, working memory capacity, cognitive flexibility).

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Making sense of all this

1. Patterns in the data

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Making sense of all this

2. Interpretation

a. Set of interrelated traits that may be higher in creative individuals and those with bipolar disorder

(i.e., underlying third factor)

ii.

(I’ve added a lot of explanation here.)

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Excerpt from "Stage Fright" (from "The Last Waltz" soundtrack) Now deep in the heart of a lonely kid Who suffered so much for what he did They gave this ploughboy his fortune and fame Since that day he ain't been the same See the man with the stage fright Just standin' up there to give it all his might And he got caught in the spotlight But when we get to the end He wants to start all over again I've got fire water right on my breath And the doctor warned me I might catch a death Said, "You can make it in your disguise Just never show the fear that's in your eyes"

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Making sense of all this

B. Pursuit of creative activities may impact onset of disorder.

(I.e., creativity causes mood disorder)

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Robbie Robertson

AVICII (Tim Bergling)

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“the road will kill you.” (Robbie Robertson of The band in 1976)

“People think it’s easy to be a rock star. But try to hold the attention of 18,000 people, and perform really well, for two and a half hours every night. It’s an incredibly tough thing to sustain.” (Jem Aswad, senior music editor Variety)

Both quotes taken from: https:// www.theguardian.com/music/2020/mar/02/music-rock-concerts-musicians-touring

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a more recent example: The DJ Avicii (Tim Bergling), https :// www.nytimes.com/2019/04/05/arts/music/avicii-tim-bergling-new-music.html?searchResultPosition=8

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“These artists were rejecting quotidian experience as they pursued emotional states so unfamiliar or so overpowering as to call into question the fundamentally empirical and materialistic nature of a work of art. Painters and sculptors were raising hopes for artistic catharsis that no painting or sculpture, not even a masterpiece, could ever be expected to fulfill.”

jed perl on early to mid 2oth century artists

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