“‘Kind of Blue’: Creativity, Mental Disorder and Jazz”, 2003-09-01 ():
All scientific communities must keep themselves intellectually alive. It is important that we should attempt sometimes to tackle intriguing questions that are, strictly speaking, beyond the reach of robust, achievable, scientific methodologies. The small, flawed and inconclusive literature on the relationship between creativity and mental disorder, which includes contributions from some scientific heavyweights (eg. 1987; 1994) represents a respectable attempt to use empirical methods to explore one such intriguing question.
The fact that these matters are unlikely ever to be resolved does not discredit the effort.