Article Critique (Essay Sample)

Article critique
The article is a detailed explanation of serious misconceptions about bipolar condition. The condition has been associated with artists and by extension erroneously associated with creativity. Creativity is a human capability which according to the article will not eventually be boosted by a psychological condition. However, the article has sampled tests previously done to draw the flawed conclusion that erupt suspicion about the connection. The article samples many research work done, some of them critically misleading in the manner which they draw a link between bipolar condition and the whole issue of creativity.
The article exposes flaws in the first misleading research h involving a researcher r who sampled 30 artists and carried out psychiatric interviews along 30 controls. The research came up with very confusing 43% bipolar cases in writers against only 10% in the controls. However, the article points out to variables pertinent to creativity not taken to account like intelligence, social class and academic success. The article gives a couple of some more researchers who had it wrong in some aspects which led them to flawed conclusion. However, there was to be a relationship between creative works and the conditions. The article then breaks down to show where the relationship between the condition is confused with creativity. The explanation of Jaunasian and homospatial processes forms a reasonable point of confusion (National institute of Health, 2013).
The article is well crafted and organized to evict all misconception through a process of explanation of the process of creativity and the actual nature of the bipolar condition. It exposes serious flaws through well researched work and compilation of inner details of the flawed procedures. It has however delivered a logical explanation for the relationship and closed the uncertainty of the then why the relationship is continuously being drawn.
The article relates to the topic in the text book in directly addressing the bone of contention. It lists the condition as the text book but offers a more carefully approached explanation to avoid making a fast connection with creativity. The article intelligently addresses the whole point of confusion as opposed to the text book which only talks lightly about the condition. Some of the facts given out in the article have not been well explained in the book though.
The article raised many questions. It first gave out a difference between what is bipolar condition and creativity at its best. However it failed to show how one will differentiate when they are suffering and when they are doing well in their creativity. It also did not open to show whether most therapists know whether this difference exists and that there is confusion between the two. There are uncertainties when the article reveals that artists who suffer from the condition refuse to get help but reject the claims that it helps in creativity. What then motivates other artists to keep the condition if it is destructive to their talents? Why is the misconception so strong? Is there also a confusion in that some people think they have acquired the condition whereas they are just okay? (Jamison, 2014).
The article leaves serious implication about psychology. There are many psychological conditions and many misleading researches that have been done. The article simply reveals the complexity of psychological cases and misconception that are living in common people. Psychology in the society is not well understood as a result put the society under jeopardy of adopting precarious treatments, assumptions or medications. The society in simple terms cannot be able to come up with accurate conclusions in face of a psychological case; they will end up sampling or collecting information and give a ve...