The nature of madness and creativity : myths and realities -- Sylvia Plath: perfected in death -- Judy Garland: under the rainbow -- Mark Rothko: painted in blood -- Ernest Hemingway: living up to his legend -- Virginia Woolf: a great lake of melancholy -- Charles Mingus: musical hallucinations -- Vaslav Nijinsky: a method to his madness -- Marilyn Monroe: killed by kindness -- Lenny Bruce: sick and dirty comic -- Brian Wilson: afraid of the water -- Interpretations of meaning in the lives of creative geniuses.