
I went up to Oxford to visit my Dad at the weekend and stumbled across this little masterpiece on a mug in his kitchen.
On quizzing him about it he informed me that was a diagram he crafted a few years ago in an attempt to illustrate his view of how psychotic illnesses like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are based on personality traits that can be adaptive and beneficial, particularly in their connection to creative thinking.
Apparently it has become iconic amongst students and colleagues of my Dad with an interest in the subject of schizophrenia and schizotypy and eventually ended up being applied to mugs and tshirts by Branden Miller, a student of his who added the caption at the bottom.
Read on for my Dad’s in-depth explanation of the diagram…
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