Schizophrenia, modernism, and the "creative imagination": On creativity and psychopathology

Creativity Research Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 55-74

  Sass, Louis A ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0040971992     PISSN: 10400419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15326934crj1301_7     Document Type: Article

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