Brilliant and insanity. Lombroso Ch.

Cesare Lombroso is an outstanding Italian psychiatrist and forensic scientist who devoted life to the study of the nature of the madness and psychology of the criminal. “Genius and insanity” is one of his most famous and fascinating works, in which the author traces a clear connection between genius and mental anomalies formed under the influence of the environment and society. Bringing a lot of historical and biographical facts, Lombroso explores the physiological similarity between great people (among others this is Aristotle, Russo, Hoffman, Schopenhauer, Mozart, Van Gogh, Gogol, Linnya, Newton, Goethe) and obsessed, approves the influence of heredity and meteorological phenomena on their Fate and character.