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We see it in figures as different - and distant - as Leonardo da Vinci and Albert Einstein: a rare combination of unusual intelligence, remarkable insight, and amazing inventiveness. It's called genius, and most of us, at one point or another, wish we had it. But what is genius, and where does it come from? Are there many types of genius? And is there any real connection between genius and madness?
Joining host Dr. Fred Goodwin are Dr. Dean Keith Simonton, professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis, and the author of "Genius and Creativity" and "Greatness: Who Makes History and Why"; Dr. Ellen Winner, professor psychology at Boston College, who studies artistic genius; Dr. Darold Treffert, professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin Medical School, and a world leading expert on Savant Syndrome, the unusual combination of severe mental disability and intellectual giftedness; and Dr. Harold Bloom, eminent literary and cultural critic, Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University, and the author of Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Minds. Plus commentary by John Hockenberry.
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