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On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 06:39:29PM -0500, Mike Miller wrote:
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> Depression is really common among writers too. This is interesting:
>
> http://www.cbs.com/cbs_cares/depression/creativity.shtml
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> Dr. Nancy Andreasen is a psychiatrist (MD) and researcher who first earned
> a PhD in English -- so she knows the writers really well.
>
You might like "The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block
and the Creative Brain" by Alice W. Flaherty. She is a Mass General /
Harvard Med School neurologist who got interesed in the topic after a
post-partum bout of depression and "hypergraphia."
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=LLl1OFkIWoIC&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=alice+flaherty&ots=vzf8gS5UgF&sig=SL8-GGIMka3BpSItC8WPhrO8x2A
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