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Art History and Mental Health

Michelangelo Buonarroti: Art and Mental Health History
An unrevised, earlier version of a chapter from The Artist's Mind
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Leonora Carrington Art and Mental Health
The surrealist artist's psychotic breakdown, a closer look at a specific piece of her art, and a few fun facts ...
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Lisa Carver's Heart-Wrenching Writing: On Yoko Ono, Dissociative Identity, Parenting a Neurodiverse Child and all of the ways art relates…
"I wasn't self-taught; I tried to stay not taught at all, for as long as I could. No reading instructions, no learning techniques, no improving."
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Art History Meets Psychology: Sam Gilliam, Bipolar Depression and the Impact of Medication on Creativity
Abstract art "challenges you to understand something that is different, that a person can be just as good in difference"
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Art History Meets Psychology: A Collection of Essays
Looking at the nuanced relationship between creativity and mental health among a selection of artists from across time.
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Georgia O'Keeffe: Where Art History Meets Mental Health
Each article looks at a different part of O’Keeffe’s creative journey and how they were shaped by both her mental health and her relationships.
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Melancholia: Albercht Durer
Outdated diagnoses, traits of melancholic art and the work of one famous artist.
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From Neurasthenia to Shadowbanning
How Diverse Embodied Experiences are Rendered Invisible Under the Guise of “Protecting The Public From Harm”
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Art History and Outdated Mental Health Diagnosis: Neurasthenia
The Rest Cure, Women on the Verge, Alice Neel's escape from the diagnosis, and more about artists said to have had neurasthenia
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The Impact of Hysteria Diagnosis on Women in Art History
How Camille Claudel, Dora Maar, Emily Dickinson and others were affected by an outdated psychological diagnosis that pathologizes women's creativity
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Where does the "truth" lie in a self portrait? What history's artists reveal ..
Imagine that you want to say something about yourself to a room of people you consider important but you can only do so by showing them your…
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Art and Mental Health History: Carlo Zinelli
Acknowledging the problems with the term "outsider art" while celebrating the work created by institutionalized Italian artist Carlo Zinelli
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