Creativity & Madness
PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDIES OF
ART AND ARTISTS
for information about Volume 2
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.
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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