Primary-process thinking and creativity: Affect and cognition

The schizophrenia spectrum and the bipolar disorder spectrum involve differ ent types of psychotic disorders. Both disorders have been linked to creati vity. Primary-process thinking is evident in all psychotic disorders. Primary-pro cess thinking has also been found to relate to creativity in normal populat ions. One possibility is that different dimensions of primary-process thoug ht are dominant in different disorders. The cognitive dimension may be more dominant in the schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, and the affective dimens ion may be more dominant in bipolar disorders. Future research should inves tigate how primary-process thinking differs in these disorders and the impl ications for creative functioning.