Creativity and psychiatric illness: A functional perspective beyond chaos

- Creativity may be proposed as a bridge between free association and psychiatric disorders in a perspective in which creativity could have neural biomarkers linked one side to free association and to psychiatric diseases too.
- Literature data report association between creativity and psychiatric illness otherwise. It would be thought that creativity could be canalized in a productive way if passing from a pathological perspective to a free associated one.
- Free associations have been found having neural basis although many studies are needed.
- There are, among others, Self-related brain regions that could be studied in a functional dynamic connectivity perspective to highlight both free association and psychiatric disorders if the focus is creativity.