Can art change how we think about this thing called ‘schizophrenia’? Are all artists ‘mad’? Are people with schizophrenia more creative than those without? A freelance journalist with a history of paranoid schizophrenia aims to address these questions and more in ‘A look at schizophrenia in art’. With a master’s degree in creative writing, and an honours degree in fine art, Erica Crompton was always destined to be something of a multi-tasker. Writing is her main obsession, and she writes at length on everything from inspiring first-person accounts of psychosis, to farming in Shropshire, and spirituality for most quality newspapers, including The New York Times. In these two short essays she combines her love of writing and art, while drawing on a life lived with paranoid schizophrenia and other diagnosis.