Lawrence Kubie

Kubie was an influential American psychoanalyst, trained first as a neurophysiologist, who wrote widely on the unconscious roots of neurosis and on the relationship between neurosis and creativity. Of American Jewish background, his book 'Neurotic Distortion of the Creative Process' (1958) argued that emotional health, not neurosis, best sustains creative work. He was a leading figure in mid-century American psychiatry and the psychoanalytic study of science and art.