Category: Psychology

  • Creativity and Mental Illness

    Creativity and Mental Illness

    I came across Nancy Andreason in 2014 while researching the brain, to assist me in writing the next chapter of my novel-in-progress: about a young gifted boy who suffers a traumatic brain injury. Creativity is also a theme in the novel. Nancy Andreason has spent decades researching the brain and what constitutes creativity; and the…

  • A Modern True Story

    A Modern True Story

    We were so close … you were my golden angel! How could I have let this happen? Was it all my fault? Our faults? Of course not, it was no one’s fault. But that’s the first thought that you have … at the time of the diagnosis. And for a long time afterwards, too. It’s…