Volume 1, Creativity and Madness

Volume 1, Creativity and Madness

Creativity & Madness, Psychological Studies of Art and Artists

This exciting new book is in response to your requests for a written record of the outstanding presentations at our conferences. Eighteen mental health professionals explore the psychological and emotional issues behind the creativity of 16 famous artists, writers, and composers. Discover how depression, drug and alcohol abuse, sexuality, aggression, and other components of the human condition led to great works of art by Van Gogh, Rossini, Michelangelo, Kahlo, Virginia Woolf, Wagner, Plath, Picasso, Magritte, and others.

Edited by:
Barry M. Panter, M.D., Ph.D.
Mary Lou Panter, R.N.
Evelyn Virshup, Ph.D., A.T.R.
Bernard Virshup, M.D.

How do creative artists use their art to express and deal with their emotional problems? What can we learn about them from their art? Is creativity related to madness? Can psychology shed new light on this ancient belief? What do you have in common with some of the world’s most famous artists? Eighteen mental health professionals explore these questions in the and others.

Note: Volume 2 has been recently published and is available here.

Table of Contents
Vincent Van Gogh—Creativity and Madness
Jackson Pollack—Art vs. Alcohol
Richard Wagner, An Artists Destroys his Work—Comments on Creativity and Destruction
The Art and Suffering of Frida Kahlo
Edgar Allan Poe—The Descent into Madness
Michelangelo’s Creativity—The Conquest of Adversity
Pieter Bruegel, The Elder
Edvard Munch—A Study of Loss, Grief and Creativity
Sylvia Plath—A Blind Girl Playing with a Slide Rule of Values
The Missing Mothers of Leorardo and Magritte
Virginia Woolf – Manic Depressive Psychosis and Genius
Elizabeth Layton—Life Long Depression and Healing in Later Life
Picasso—The Man and His Women

320 pages
56 illustrations
Hardcover: $24.95

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