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Art History and Mental Health

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Outdated diagnoses, traits of melancholic art and the work of one famous artist.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Art History and Outdated Mental Health Diagnosis: Neurasthenia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How Camille Claudel, Dora Maar, Emily Dickinson and others were affected by an outdated psychological diagnosis that pathologizes women's creativity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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Sonja Sekula: Where Art History Meets Mental Health
Open about being a lesbian, regularly hospitalized for mental health challenges, working on a small scale when other Abstract Expressionists worked…
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Art+Mental Health in The Last Confessions of Sylvia P.
Summary, takeaways, art/journal prompts and more from this riveting novel
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Isa Genzken: A Half Century of Prolific, Innovative Art and Openness on Bipolar Symptoms
“She has always courted danger, with predictable results—the life force and the death wish are at odds in her.” - Judith Thurman on Isa Genzken
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DIANE ARBUS: Where Art Meets Mental Health
Complicated family dynamics, history of depression, multilayered sexuality, and other things that may have helped shape the direction of the…
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