The Creative Artist, Mental Disturbance, and Mental Health - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Creative Artist, Mental Disturbance, and Mental Health write by Elliot Benjamin, Ph.D.. This book was released on 2017-04-21. The Creative Artist, Mental Disturbance, and Mental Health available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book describes The Artistic Theory of Psychology, in which a dominant focus is on the successful creative artist and mental health. However, the book also describes the relationship of the creative artist to mental disturbance in various contexts, including an innovative academic treatment, personal experiential essays written by the author, excerpts related to the author's semi-autobiographical novel, and illustrative blog excerpts from the author's struggling actor son. The main theme of the book is that through humanistic supportive environments for creative artists, the phenomenon of the successful creative artist in the context of success in both one's creative artistic endeavors as well as a satisfactory adjustment to day-to-day life, can be nourished and enhanced.
The Creative Artist, Mental Disturbance, and Mental Health
The Creative Artist, Mental Disturbance, and Mental Health - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Creative Artist, Mental Disturbance, and Mental Health write by Elliot Benjamin. This book was released on 2016-12-08. The Creative Artist, Mental Disturbance, and Mental Health available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Creativity and Mental Illness
Creativity and Mental Illness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Creativity and Mental Illness write by James C. Kaufman. This book was released on 2014-08-07. Creativity and Mental Illness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book re-examines the common view that a high level of individual creativity often correlates with a heightened risk of mental illness.
Artistry of the Mentally Ill
Artistry of the Mentally Ill - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Artistry of the Mentally Ill write by H. Prinzhorn. This book was released on 2013-11-11. Artistry of the Mentally Ill available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. No one is more conscious of the faults of this work than the author. Therefore some self -criticism should be woven into this foreward. There are two possible methodologically pure solutions to this book's theme: a de scriptive catalog of the pictures couched in the language of natural science and accom panied by a clinical and psychopathological description of the patients, or a completely metaphysically based investigation of the process of pictorial composition. According to the latter, these unusual works, explained psychologically, and the exceptional circum stances on which they are based would be integrated as a playful variation of human expression into a total picture of the ego under the concept of an inborn creative urge, behind which we would then only have to discover a universal need for expression as an instinctive foundation. In brief, such an investigation would remain in the realm of phenomenologically observed existential forms, completely independent of psychiatry and aesthetics. The compromise between these two pure solutions must necessarily be piecework and must constantly defend itself against the dangers of fragmentation. We are in danger of being satisfied with pure description, the novelistic expansion of details and questions of principle; pitfalls would be very easy to avoid if we had the use of a clearly outlined method. But the problems of a new, or at least never seriously worked, field defy the methodology of every established subject.
Creativity, Madness and Civilisation
Creativity, Madness and Civilisation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Creativity, Madness and Civilisation write by Richard Pine. This book was released on 2021-04-16. Creativity, Madness and Civilisation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is ‘creativity’? And what is ‘madness’? How far can we interpret an artist’s work through our knowledge of his or her mental state, and how far can we infer a mental state from a work of art? When does a work of art cease to be a personal statement by the artist and become a matter of public concern? The contributions to this book attempt to answer some of these questions. They come from a wide range of disciplines and experiences – a practising psychiatrist, a practising artist suffering from reactive depression, and critics working in literature, film, music and the visual arts. The essays include discussions of the ‘myth of creativity’, the music of Robert Schumann, the borders of sanity in the writing of Lawrence Durrell, the ‘insane truth’ of Virginia Woolf, the meeting of doctor and patient in the poetry of Anne Sexton, mood disorders in the fiction of David Foster Wallace, love and madness in the poetry of Hafiz of Shiraz, and the paintings of Adolf Wölfli. Central to this discussion of creativity, madness and civilisation is the difficulty of establishing an appropriate and effective vocabulary and mindset between critics and clinical psychiatrists, which would enable them to work together in understanding mental disturbance in creative artists.
