Verbal Creativity, Depression and Alcoholism: An Investigation of One Hundred American and British Writers

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 168, Issue MAY, 1996, Pages 545-555

  Post, Felix ^a,b  

^a BETHLEM ROYAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CREATIVITY; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; LITERATURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERSONALITY;

ALCOHOLISM; AUTHORSHIP; CREATIVENESS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DRAMA; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; POETRY; PSYCHOPATHOLOGY; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES; WRITING;

EID: 0029900499     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.168.5.545     Document Type: Article

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