Navigating the multiple dimensions of the creativity-mental disorder link: a Convergence Mental Health perspective
Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: BACKGROUND: This paper discusses a paradox in mental health. It manifests as a relationship between adverse "bad" effects (suffering, clinical costs, loss of productivity) in individuals and populations and advantageous "good" aspects of mental disorders. These beneficial aspects (scientific, artistic and political accomplishments) emanate at the societal level through the frequently unprecedented creativity of people suffering from mental disorders and their relatives. Such gains can contribute to societal innovation and problem-solving. Especially in times of accelerated social-ecological change, approaches are needed that facilitate best-possible mental health care but also recognize creative ideas conducive to beneficial clinical and social-ecological innovations as soon as possible. DISCUSSION: This paper emphasizes the need to account for creativity as a crucial component in evolving mental health systems and societies. It highlights the need for wide-ranging approaches and discusses how research targeting multiple facets (e.g., brain level, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry, neurology, socio-cultural, economic and other factors) might further our understanding of the creativity-mental disorder link and its importance for innovating mental health systems and societies. CONCLUSION: Our discussion clarifies that considerable research will be needed to obtain a better understanding of how creativity associated with mental disorders may help to create more sustainable societies on a fast-changing planet through innovative ideas. Given the current-state-of-the-art of research and healthcare management, our discussion is currently speculative. However, it provides a basis for how pros and cons might be studied in the future through transdisciplinary research and collaborations across sectors of society.
Source: Discover Mental Health
Authors: David G. Angeler, Erin Smith, Michael Berk, Agustín Ibáñez, Harris A. Eyre
Institutions: University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Deakin University, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Economiques, University of California, San Francisco, Trinity College Dublin, Stanford Medicine, Global Brain Health Institute, Stanford University, The University of Melbourne, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Orygen Youth Health, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Adolfo Ibáñez University, University of San Andrés, Baylor College of Medicine
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $1,340
Funders: Alzheimer's Association, Target ALS, Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet, Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo, National Institutes of Health, National Health and Medical Research Council, National Institute on Aging, Fondo de Fomento al Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico, Fondo de Financiamiento de Centros de Investigación en Áreas Prioritarias
Awards: G103627852, G1581799926, G1853415910, Development of a bench to bedside platform for novel therapy development for psychiatric disorders, G1919018801, G2118524674, MACHINE LEARNING FOR MENTAL HEALTH NEW DEVELOPMENTS AND APPLICATIONS USING MULTIMODAL DATA, G3481889345, G3628792472, CENTRO DE GEROCIENCIA SALUD MENTAL Y METABOLISMO (GERO), Novel therapies for psychiatric disorders, MACHINE LEARNING PARA EL DIAGNOSTICO PRECOZ Y PERFIL MULTIMODAL DE LA ENFERMEDAD DE ALZHEIMER BASADO EN MIRNA DE EXOSOMAS CIRCULANTES., SENSITIVE NEUROCOGNITIVE MARKERS OF NEURODEGENERATION A MULTI-FEATURE FRAMEWORK, G7616641907, NATURAL SPEECH MARKERS OF NEURODEGENERATION AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH FOR DISEASE DISCRIMINATION AND SYMPTOM TRACKING, MAPPING AND MODELING THE HEALTHY AND PATHOLOGICAL AGING TRAJECTORIES OF THE HUMAN BRAIN, G883642430, G9000123810
OpenAlex ID: W4388730159