Strong Imagination: Madness, Creativity and Human Nature Condition:Very Good from the Sunset Strip to

from the Sunset Strip to the enchanted sea that pounds the beaches of Santa Monica

The Honest Life shares the insights and strategies she gathered along the way

Claude Jacques

she reluctantly accepts her eccentric uncle's offer to live rent-free in the tiny room above the shop

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Strong Imagination: Madness, Creativity and Human Nature Condition:Very Good from the Sunset Strip toMadness is the central mystery of the human psyche. Our minds evolved to give us a faithful understanding of reality, to allow us to integrate into our communities, and to help us adapt our behavior to our environment. Yet in serious mental illness, the mind does exactly the opposite of these things. The sufferer builds castles of imaginative delusion, fails to adapt, and becomes a stranger among his own people. Yet mental illness is no marginal it is