Genius, Lunatics, and Poets: Mental Illness in Prize-Winning Authors

Imagination, Cognition and Personality

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 305-314

  Kaufman, James C ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0346529642     PISSN: 02762366     EISSN: 15414477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/M3W0-AT3T-GTLE-0L9G     Document Type: Article

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