The Effects of LSD-25 on Creativity and Tolerance to Regression
Archives of General Psychiatry June 1, 1967 Leonard S. Zegans 56 citations
Interest in creativity has grown among behavioral scientists, reflecting a long-standing popular fascination. Many authors have offered advice on acquiring creativity, debated whether neurosis is necessary for its use, and developed methods to assess creative potential. Dynamic psychiatry has been central to studying the creative personality, with early psychoanalytic writers emphasizing instinctual drives and neurotic conflicts as motivations for creative sublimation. By examining the lives of historical geniuses, researchers have shown how basic needs and fantasies become embedded in the content and structure of their work.