SOUNDS FROM THE BELL JAR
Ten Psychotic Authors
Gordon Claridge, Ruth Pryor, and Gwen Watkins
Malor Books, 1998
LEARNING OBJECTIVES - This course was designed to allow the reader to:
• Understand the similarities and differences between psychotic and creative processes
• Understand the criteria used for selecting writers for this study
• Learn what factor protects highly creative people from mental breakdown
• Learn the reasons behind the study of madness and creativity
• Learn what the authors define as the hallmark of creativity
• Learn why a truly creative person’s mode of thinking resembles that of the diagnosably psychotic
• Learn who wrote the phrase “gasping for air inside a bell-jar” and what it means
• Understand the function of the corpus callosum in the brain
Gordon Claridge is a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and University Lecturer in Abnormal Psychology. Ruth Pryor is a mediaevalist, and Gwen Watkins is a critic of Victorian literature.
10 CE credits; 247 pages
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