Strong Imagination: Madness, Creativity and Human Nature, a new book by Daniel Nettle. How
could (psychotic disorders ) persist in the human population, when their effects are so obviously deleterious? “The hypothesis that the traits underlying psychoticism
can also have beneficial effects, specifically in creative thinking, is critically examined, and the evidence for it laid out. Implications of this
hypothesis for mental health, for culture, and for the evolution of the mind are then examined.” And depression, creativity and the meaning vortex, some musings on vtheory about the work-in-progress of psychiatrist Eric Maisel about just this conjunction.