Method In The Madness

Studio 360

In the standard Hollywood formula, you pretty much can’t be a genius without also being nuts. Is there really a connection between great creativity and mental illness? Tamar Brott speaks with Kaye Redfield Jamison and other experts and tries to separate the truth from the myth.

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