“This is an excellent research report that should, once and for all, resolve senseless controversies about the correlation of creativity with psychopathology.”

—  Arnold M. Ludwig

John Gedo, M.D. in a review of The Price of Greatness, in The Review of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

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