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Professor Nassir Ghaemi MD MPH<\/p><\/div>\n

A First Rate Madness<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Why mental illness enhances crisis leadership<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Posted in PSYCHOLOGY TODAY Aug 09, 2011<\/span><\/p>\n

Many great leaders have been mentally ill, mainly with severe depression<\/a> and sometimes with mania. \u00a0This is not an entirely controversial statement. \u00a0It is generally accepted by historians that Abraham Lincoln had severe depression, and so did Winston Churchill. \u00a0Both were suicidal<\/a> at times. \u00a0Some other figures are less well-known but the documentary evidence is relatively strong: General William Sherman was removed from command because of concerns that he was insane. \u00a0He appeared, in retrospect, to have experienced a manic episode with paranoid delusions; he also had, throughout his life, episodes of severe depression, along with occasional suicidal thoughts. \u00a0Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King both made suicide attempts in adolescence<\/a>, and each had at least two severe depressive episodes in their lifetimes. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Other examples are not as extreme. The concepts of dysthymia (mild depression) and hyperthymia (chronic hypomanic symptoms) are reasonably well-validated scientifically as abnormal temperaments, genetically and biologically related to depression and mania, respectively. \u00a0Using the definitions of those conditions, some leaders appear to have had hyperthymic temperaments (such as Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, and John Kennedy).<\/span><\/p>\n

This is not to say that all leaders had mental illness. Most leaders did not; most leaders were mentally healthy. And that may be the problem. \u00a0Mental health<\/a> may not be as good for leadership<\/a> as people often assume.<\/span><\/p>\n

This would be the case if mental illness confers certain psychological advantages that may be useful for leadership. \u00a0Mania, for instance, is well associated with creativity<\/a>. Depression, in many psychological studies, is associated with enhance realism. \u00a0Both may increase resilience<\/a> (\u03b5\u03c5\u03ba\u03b1\u03bc\u03c8\u03af\u03b1 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03b1\u03bd\u03b8\u03b5\u03ba\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc\u03c4\u03b7\u03c4\u03b1). I have reviewed the scientific evidence for the occurrence of these positive aspects of mental illness elsewhere. If this evidence is correct, it may explain why mental illness might enhance, and mental health hinder, crisis leadership.<\/span><\/p>\n

These are the themes of A First Rate Madness, just published<\/a>. \u00a0I plan to provide more detail on various aspects in future posts, including some reaction to comments that I receive from readers.<\/span><\/p>\n

In response to initial reactions to my recent article in the Wall Street Journal,<\/a> and other interactions, I’ll begin by emphasizing four points:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. \u00a0My examples are not chosen superficially. There is good documentary evidence for the symptoms that I describe. \u00a0Diagnosing leaders from the past is more valid than in the present because the documentary evidence often increases with time, and our feelings about distant leaders are usually more objective than is the case with living leaders.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. \u00a0I am not diagnosing everyone. In fact I am diagnosing most leaders as healthy. \u00a0Only a minority are ill, but they happen to be the best crisis leaders.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. \u00a0I am distinguishing between crisis and non-crisis leadership. Those who are mentally healthy are fine leaders in non-crisis situations, but they fail during crises. Vice versa for great mentally ill leaders.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. \u00a0The intuition<\/a> against my thesis has its roots in stigma, I believe. This prejudice<\/a> underlies the notion that a leader we dislike must be mentally ill, or that mental health inherently is better than mental illness for leadership. \u00a0These ideas are based on a stigmatizing attitude towards mental illness,<\/strong> the view that it is inherently and completely harmful. \u00a0Mental illness certainly can be harmful in many ways, but not inherently and completely.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This article was written by Nassir Ghaemi MD MPH. He\u00a0 is a psychiatrist and researcher specializing in depression and bipolar illness.\u00a0 He is Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts Medical Center in Boston and Clinical Lecturer at Harvard Medical School, and teaches at the Cambridge Health Alliance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    Since October 2017, he also has been employed at Novartis Institutes of Biomedical Research in Cambridge MA, where he leads clinical psychiatry research in early drug discovery.<\/span><\/p>\n

    https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/mood-swings\/201108\/first-rate-madness<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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