Eccentrics: they live longer, happier and are odd! (interview with author David Weeks)(Interview)

From: Nutrition Health Review | Date: January 1, 1996 | Copyright information

Q: What prompted you to make a scientific study of eccentricity??

A: Psychologists have undertaken exhaustive studies of every personality type and mental disorder under the sun, yet somehow we have completely overlooked eccentrics. And psychiatry, on the other hand, tends only to take an interest in those who seek treatment, and since eccentrics rarely do so, they have been overlooked. Eccentrics were to psychology what black holes once were to astronomy. I thought it might ...

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