Neurological Disorders in Famous Artists - Part 3: Preface

摘要

This is the third volume of ‘Neurological Disorders in Famous Artists’, a‘series’ we initiated in 2005 highlighting the relationship between neurologicaldisease and creativity in famous painters, writers, poets, philosophers, andmusicians. The first trigger was the important observation that the biographicreports of Guillaume Apollinaire available at that time failed to match the actualchanges in his personality and activity after World War I, mainly because ofunwarranted psychological interpretations in a man who in fact suffered from atraumatic brain lesion, with subsequent paralysis, epilepsy, and associated emotionalbehaviors.