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Rosa Montero asks how creative work links to an unstable mind. How does the brain work when we create? What forces shape this process? She draws on her own life and wide reading. She uses psychology, the study of the mind. She uses neuroscience, the study of the brain, too. She also draws on literature and creative people's life stories.

The book mixes genres, or kinds of writing. It looks at mental distress in daily life. It is for readers drawn to the mind and creative work. Montero sets painful illness against forms of madness that bring joy. Mioara Adelina Angheluta translated the book from Spanish.