Is there a link between high IQ and madness?

In recognizing what "madness" is, we must, as Michel Foucalt said, recognize that we cannot make sense of clinical models of insanity without the social and historical constructions of knowledge in which they operate. read more

There IS a link between genius and madness Perhaps geniuses are needed in society in order to make sure that attention to the psyche and collective unconscious, revealed in art, is sufficient. If everybody was completely "sane" and behaved rigidly confined to the norm, without intellectual openness, I have no idea what dystopic society we'd be living in much worse than the current one. read more

There IS a link between creativity and madness - with both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder frequent in highly creative and intelligent people, says a panel in New York. read more