“Floor Sample: a creative memoir” by Julia Cameron (post 2): Relationship to August Strindberg, who also had both creativity and psychotic episodes

For the rest of her memoir, Julia Cameron remains productive in her writing (plays, novels, musicals) and her teaching about creativity, except when she has recurrent, blatant, “psychotic episodes.”

Eventually, she gets on antipsychotic medication, first Navane and later Abilify. She claims that her official psychiatric diagnosis is nothing more specific than “psychotic episodes,” but acknowledges that she would relapse without medication.

Of all the writers I have discussed, the one who comes most to mind is August Strindberg, who also had both creativity and psychotic episodes. Search “Strindberg.”