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Keats, Beethoven, And Jean-Claude Van Damme: Portraits Of A Bipolar Manic Depressive

There’s long been a link between greatness and madness in the mind of the public. Particularly after the early 1800′s and the rise of Romanticism in Europe, common wisdom held there to be a connection between genius, particularly creative genius, and mental illness. If you’ve ever talked to someone suffering from severe schizophrenia, you might [...]