ABSTRACT
Many educated people lack understanding of the severe psychotic anxieties, irrational beliefs and conflicts present in creative people. The aim of this book is twofold: first, it is an attempt to lend deeper understanding to aspects of certain exceptionally talented creative people, namely, John Nash, Vaslav Nijinsky, José Saramago and Vincent van Gogh. Second, it tries to enhance the reader’s understanding of severe psychotic anxieties by indicating where loving and destructive phantasies may both prompt and impede artistic endeavours and personality development.
