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The politics of radical empathy,

Nassir Ghaemi • A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness

We tend to see mental health as “being normal”—happy, realistic, fulfilled.

Nassir Ghaemi • A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness

A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness

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resilience—“good outcomes in spite of serious threats to adaptation or development.”

Nassir Ghaemi • A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness

Insanity is not a “regrettable . . . accident” but the “indispensable catalyst” of genius.

Nassir Ghaemi • A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness

On Depression: Drugs, Diagnosis, and Despair in the Modern World

S. Nassir Ghaemi

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That is, the psychologically healthier patients were the most unrealistic.

Nassir Ghaemi • A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness

early failures repeatedly experienced by a person predisposed to depression inoculate against future illusion.

Nassir Ghaemi • A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness

that normal people who became ill and then recovered would return to their former worldviews.

Nassir Ghaemi • A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness