Unable to admit to himself that his talent or training might be insufficient, he blamed the Jewish members of the academy faculty for keeping him out of the art school. It caused him to fall into a deep, paranoid, delusional depression in which he spewed anti-Semitic hatred. He had delusions of omnipotence, invincibility and infallibility, violent mood swings, rages, racing thoughts and pressured speech.Īt 17, Hitler was twice rejected by the Vienna Academy of Arts. The other side of Hitler was egotistical, arrogant, grandiose, loquacious, aggressive and irritable. He survived six suicide attempts before succeeding with the seventh. He washed his hands constantly because of his phobic dread of infection. This Hitler was afraid of water, horses and the moon. His speech was hesitant, he was confused, despondent and apathetic and suffered paranoid delusions, especially about Jews. One side of Hitler was despairing, indecisive, isolated, unable to care for himself and had impaired concentration and memory. Those who knew or studied Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin offer vivid descriptions of the paranoid, delusional form of manic depressive order both men experienced. Jablow Hershman authored Brotherhood of Tyrants: Manic Depression and Absolute Power.While mental health professionals and patients yearn to see mental illness destigmatized, it is contrary to society's interests to ignore or minimize the role of emotional disorders in bigotry, hate crimes, and genocide.Ĭonsider the perpetrators of the most terrible hate crimes in history.
Julian Lieb, a psychiatrist in private practice and former director of the Dana Psychiatric Clinic at Yale-New Haven Hospital, and D. Guides for the manic depressive are suggested to reduce emotional pain and personal problems while increasing productivity. The authors also explode the myth that suffering is essential to creativity. Lieb critiques the wave of new books on depression as well as those on creativity to determine how far we have come in our understanding of this complex illness. Demonstrating how manic depression often becomes the essential difference between talent and genius, Hershman and Lieb offer valuable insights into the many obstacles and problems this illness poses for highly creative people. From Plato, who originated the idea of inspired mania, to Beethoven, Dickens, Newton, Van Gogh, and today's popular creative artists and scientists who've battled manic depression, this intriguing work examines creativity and madness in mystery, myth, and history.
Many recognized geniuses had creative capacities that were driven by bouts of manic intensity followed by the depths of mind-numbing despair.
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