Creativity and bipolar disorder: touched by fire or burning with questions?

Substantial literature has linked bipolar disorder with creative accomplishment. Much of the thinking in this area has been inspired by biographical accounts of poets, musicians, and other highly accomplished groups, which frequently document signs of bipolar disorder in these samples. A smaller literature has examined quantitative measures of creativity among people with bipolar disorder or at risk for the disorder. In this paper, we provide a critical review of such evidence. We then consider putative mechanisms related to the link of bipolar disorder with creativity, by drawing on literature outside of bipolar disorder on personality, motivational, and affective predictors of creativity. Because so little research has directly evaluated whether these factors could help explain the elevations of creativity in bipolar disorder, we conclude with an agenda for future research on the theoretically and clinically compelling topic of creativity in bipolar disorder.     

A Chance to Show His Mettle: War,Creativity and Reparation in the Work of Wilfred Bion

This paper looks in detail at Wilfred Bion's war writings, specifically at his preoccupation with issues of morale and leadership, and at the intense feelings of isolation and disillusionment that accompany his bleakest moments. This reading of the war writings demonstrates that Bion found resources that enabled him not only to survive this harrowing time but also to work creatively to improve the lives of his fellow soldiers, and it is suggested that Melanie Klein's concept of unconscious reparation may be helpful in considering Bion's life and work during this period. An impulse to repair may also be discerned in Bion's first published paper, ‘The “war of nerves”…’ ( 1940 ), as well as in his work in 1942 for the War Office Selection Board where, with the support of gifted army leaders, Bion was able to draw on his traumatic wartime experiences in order to make influential contributions to the reform of the British Army.     

Donald Winnicott's Unique View of Depression with Particular Reference to his 1963 Paper on the Value of Depression

Winnicott's unique contributions to a psychoanalytic theory of depression are not as familiar as Freud and Klein's writings. I concentrate on six areas: depression as a developmental achievement which denotes unit status; the role of destruction which arises from love (as opposed to hate which for Winnicott is a more mature affect); the importance of contributing‐in and the response of the (m)other in recovery from depression; the startling idea that the patient seeks out the analyst's depression; some thoughts on the differences between Winnicott and Freud and Klein; and lastly, the effect of depression on the development of self, creativity and the capacity to play. Winnicott does not shirk the darker side of being human, but at the same time he offers us a hopeful picture.     

Locating the ‘Usefully Problematic’ in a Novel and a Memoir by Ian McEwan

This article looks at aspects of a novel and a memoir, written over the same period in 2001, by author Ian McEwan. In ‘Mother tongue’, his memoir, McEwan reflects on his insular upbringing on various military bases abroad. His father, a soldier, was a periodic presence whose volatile moods interrupted the home‐life otherwise exclusively spent with his mother, to whom he was strongly attached. Meanwhile McEwan's novel, Atonement, employs the perspective of an adolescent girl, antagonistic to the link forming in her sister's mind towards someone else. I look at how in the novel this situation leads to a denial of oedipal hierarchy, and ultimately to what Chasseguet–Smirgel terms ‘pseudo‐creative’ solutions. Atonement, however, lays stress on the integrating effect of the creative process itself. In writing the novel in conjunction with the memoir, particularly where one interrupted the other, I speculate that McEwan embarked on a similar process, in which the initial disruption, delivered a gain in perspective, which came to promote further psychic and creative development. I explore this from the Kleinian viewpoint of the here and now, and contrast this with that of Chasseguet–Smirgel, and with the more recursive temporality found within the French tradition.     

论中医药文化的创意价值与创意产业传播

从中医药文化创意的视角解读中医药文化的新奇性、惊人性、实效性,探讨中医药文化创意的以人为本价值、资源价值及经济价值,提出中医药文化创意产业传播的3大路径：一是要提高我国中医药文化创意产业传播者素质,二是以医学类高校辐射源为中医药文化创意产业传播的切人点,三是要找准中医药文化创意产业链整合传播的方法.     

医学生创造力倾向对其参与科研情况的影响

目的 分析医学生创造力倾向对其参与科研情况的影响.方法 用自填式调查表调查临床医学等10个医学专业本科大三学生的一般情况、威廉斯创造力倾向、参与科研情况,将其分为未参与科研项目组（A组）、只参与教师的科研项目组（B组）、作为小组成员参与大学生科研项目组（C组）、作为项目负责人参与大学生科研项目组（D组）.用单因素方差分析4组学生之间创造力倾向4个维度分值及总分值的差异,用多项分类Logistic回归分析创造力倾向对学生参与科研情况的影响.结果 本次调查共回收有效调查表2 286份,有39.1％（894/2 286）的学生参与科研项目;相应将学生分为A组（1 392人）、B组（108人）、C组（626人）、D组（160人）.冒险性、好奇性、想象力、挑战性等维度分值及总分值在4组间的差异均有统计学意义（P=0.000）.C组和D组的冒险性、好奇性、挑战性分值和总分值分别高于A组（P＜0.05）.以“未参与科研项目”为参考类别,“作为项目负责人参与大学生科研项目”类别的冒险性（P=0.011）、想象力（P=0.023）和挑战性（P=0.025）的偏回归系数有统计学意义;“作为小组成员参与大学生科研项目”类别的冒险性（P＝0.009）和好奇性（P＝0.002）的偏回归系数有统计学意义.结论 高创造力倾向可能是促进医学生参与大学生科研项目的影响因素,应采取多方面综合措施培养学生创造力,提高学生科研能力.     

为中国未来科学家铺路

本文给打算进入科学领域的学生一些劝告。一般说来 ,那些后来将要获得诺贝尔奖金的年轻科学家 ,很早就被纳入了交流他们所在领域最新进展的主渠道。他们知道正在进行的最重要工作在哪儿和由谁进行。对于那些有希望的中国学生 ,要特别注意下列 5个方面的自我训练 :(1)树立为中华民族富强的信心 ;(2 )发展创造性思维 ;(3)发现值得研究的东西 ;(4)学会真正解决问题的工作方式 ;(5 )精通英语。