Read the chapter "Dangerous Gifts, Iridescent Visions and Mad Community?" by Icarista Maryse Mitchell-Brody, from the book Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry, Peter Stastny and Peter Lehmann (Eds.)
Now there is a question to make us all wonder. Has it ever occurred to any of us that have been afflicted in one way or another with what society calls "mental illness" that we're possibly just in transformation?
This essay draws on traditional biblical and greek texts and argues for the equivalence between prophecy and genius. We explore the connections between madness and prophecy, and madness and genuis and everything in between.