Strong Imagination: Madness, Creativity and Human Nature Condition:Very Good the Earth is without a

the Earth is without a doubt Ken Follett's masterpiece

Arnold Thomas Fanning had his first experience of depression during adolescence

beautifully written and immensely moving

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Strong Imagination: Madness, Creativity and Human Nature Condition:Very Good the Earth is without aMadness is the central mystery of the human psyche. Our minds evolved to give us a faithful understanding of reality, to allow us to integrate into our communities, and to help us adapt our behavior to our environment. Yet in serious mental illness, the mind does exactly the opposite of these things. The sufferer builds castles of imaginative delusion, fails to adapt, and becomes a stranger among his own people. Yet mental illness is no marginal it is