'Missing
Link' Between Madness and Genius
By Amy
Iggulden
The Telegraph
Genius cannot
exist without mental disorder, according to a study that names George
Orwell, LS Lowry and Lewis Carroll among 21 artists who suffered a form
of autism.
The psychiatric
portrait of some of the most imaginative minds in history claims to prove
the link between madness and greatness.
Beethoven,
Mozart, Hans Christian Andersen and Immanuel Kant are among the musicians,
writers, painters and philosophers who have been diagnosed with Asperger's
syndrome.
Prof Michael
Fitzgerald, a psychiatrist and expert in the syndrome that affects social
relationships but not intellect, claims that people with Asperger's can
have exceptional artistic creativity, as well as mathematical genius.
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