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Mental illness & Art History
TYPES OF MENTAL ILLNESSES(UK): AND STATS. ANY GIVEN WEEK IN ENGLAND.
https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/statistics-and-facts-about-mental-health/how-common-are-mental-health-problems/
BIPOLAR DISORDER
2 in 100 people (in their lifetime)
BODY DISMORPHIA
DEPRESSION
MIXED WITH ANXIETY: 8 in 100 people.
Depression Alone: 3 in 100 people.
GENERAL ANXIETY DISORDER: GAD
6 in 100 people.
POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER: PTSD
4 in 100 people.
OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER: OCD
1 in 100 people.
PANIC DISORDER
FEWER THAN 100
PHOBIAS
2 in 100 people.
1 in 4 people will experience a mental health problem of some kind each year in England
1 in 6 people report experiencing a common mental health problem (like anxiety and depression) in any given week in England
PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS
Psychotic disorders (including schizophrenia): fewer than 1 in 100 people (in any given year)
BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER
2 in 100 people (in their lifetime)
ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER
(ASPD): 3 in 100 people (in their lifetime)
ARTISTS WHO DID/DO SUFFER FROM MENTAL ILLNESS
THEIR PIECES
THEIR HISTORY - BIOGRAPHY
HOW THEY GOT INTO ART
WHAT THEIR ART MEANT TO THEM
WHAT THEY SUFFERED FROM
THE ERA OF PSYCHIATRY AROUND THEM
PERSONAL EVALUATION OF THEIR WORK
ARTISTS WITH ILLNESSES
VAN GOPH:
PROBABLE DEPRESSION, ANXIETY, BIPOLAR
MUNCH: DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY
INDIVIDUALS WITH MENTAL ILLNESS
FRIENDS AND FAMILY
FILMING THOSE WITH MENTAL ILLNES, COLLECTING STILLS FROM THOSE FILMS.
REFERENCES: ART AND MENTAL ILLNESS
Entire series of conferences on this relationship has sprung up. Called Creativity and Madness, the series of talks and panels was created by Dr. Barry Panter, a retired clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Southern California School of Medicine.
In 2009, Szabolcs Keri, a researcher in the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary. “genetic polymorphisms related to severe mental disorders” were found in people with the “highest creative achievements and creative-thinking scores.” Why Creative People are Eccentric.
In 2016, a group of researchers reported on the “psychopath model of the creative personality” in the journal Personality and Individual Differences.
Clinical psychologist Maureen Neihart reported in the Roeper Review that “[t]he incidence of mental illness among creative artists is higher than in the population at large. Some studies link creativity with bipolar disorders specifically (Andreasen, 1988; Jamison, 1989; Richards; 1989)
(Jamison, 1993).” Jamison—in this case Kay Redfield Jamison, a clinical psychologist who has written extensively on bi-polar disorder—is the author of Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament. (Jamison, 1993).” “overlap between the artistic and manic-depressive temperaments.”
Dr. Albert Rothenberg, a former professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a researcher in a project entitled “Studies in the Creative Process,” which focuses on the psychiatric and psychological bases of creativity in literature. “You look closely at Kay Jamison’s research and you find that it is full of spurious data, with collected anecdotes of this artist who committed suicide and that artist who was institutionalized, and she concludes from all that a linkage that doesn’t exist.”
“I certainly don’t believe there is any connection between creativity and bipolar disorders,” said New York psychologist Eric Dammann, who specializes in the treatment of fine, literary and performing artists,
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