E490 CMAJ| April 15, 2024| Volume 196| Issue 14 it was a condition that could cause “sig
nificant distress” to anyone living during that time. In a few decades, will this man's speech …

There are a couple of reasons why the topic for this chapter may strike some readers as
curious. Given the focus of this book, it will not be the interest in narrative or self which will …

When I was a small child, I worked on fistfuls of clay in my grandfather's pottery factory. I
learned how to fashion a figure with my thumbs and fingers; use slip, paint, and glaze; and …

Probably most of us–writers here at the IWP–have won some literary award that we're rather
pleased about, that were you to ask about it, we would tell you the story of our …

Not that this is a new subject but it is of such importance that it deserves to be taken up again
from time to time. Poetry and other creative output can be considered as “emotional …

Creativity, language, and psychotic disorders may share a common neurological and
evolutionary background. These processes are uniquely human and may converge in poetic …

When I had my first psychotic episode, I was sick for seven long months without contact with
other human beings. Very early in my psychosis I broke with family, friends, and school and …

In addition to my first person account writings, I like to write poetry. Should someone ask me
to use an analogy to describe my writing process, I would answer that writing to me is like …

The isolation room is compact–I can almost reach the walls if I stretch out my arms. A
corrugated metal grid covers the entire back wall; the front wall is glass. I focus on the side …

The interpretation of what has been called the art of the 'insane'speaks mostly, and perhaps
only, to the needs and culture of institutional psychiatry. This one hundred year old practice …