Terms of creativity: schizotypy traits and artistic personality

The submitted work is concerned with a possible relationship between artistic talent and psychological abnormalities. Apart from bipolar disorder by artistically gifted individuals, I am examining schizotypy, from which predominantly sub-scale Unusual Experiences significantly correlates with artistic creativity in the foreign researches. Besides, in the theoretical part, I am also involved with the researches of creativity and psychotic disorders heredity and studies exploring biographic data of famous artists from the psychological point of view. The relationship between artistic talent and schizotypy is being described also from the perspective of psychoanalysis, cognitive siences, neuro-sciences and evolutional psychology. I am also considering healthy schizotypy where the continuation of schizophrenia in the population is justified by the advantages which are related to this spectrum of illness. In accordance with other studies, the results of incident research suggest that artistic creatives score higher on measures of three schizotypy (Unusual Experiences, Cognitive Disorganisation and Impulsive Noncomformity) than did the non-artist group and same on Introvertive Anhedonia. A sample of art college and non-art college students (N = 120) was tested on O-LIFE schizotypy scales. In the last part of the..