Andreasen N C
Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City 52242.
Am J Psychiatry. 1987 Oct;144(10):1288-92. doi: 10.1176/ajp.144.10.1288.
Rates of mental illness were examined in 30 creative writers, 30 matched control subjects, and the first-degree relatives of both groups. The writers had a substantially higher rate of mental illness, predominantly affective disorder, with a tendency toward the bipolar subtype. There was also a higher prevalence of affective disorder and creativity in the writers' first-degree relatives, suggesting that these traits run together in families and could be genetically mediated. Both writers and control subjects had IQs in the superior range; the writers excelled only on the WAIS vocabulary subtest, confirming previous observations that intelligence and creativity are independent mental abilities.
对30名创意作家、30名匹配的对照对象以及两组对象的一级亲属进行了精神疾病发病率检查。作家的精神疾病发病率显著更高，主要为情感障碍，且倾向于双相亚型。在作家的一级亲属中，情感障碍和创造力的患病率也更高，这表明这些特征在家族中共同存在，且可能由基因介导。作家和对照对象的智商均处于较高水平；作家仅在韦氏成人智力量表词汇子测试中表现出色，证实了之前的观察结果，即智力和创造力是独立的心理能力。
