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Music and Mental Health

When Your Primary Creative Medium Disappears: Greta Morgan’s Journey of Loss and Rediscovery
A review of the book The Lost Voice by Greta Morgan ...
 • Kathryn Vercillo
Music and Mental Health
These pieces honor both the healing power of music and the real mental health challenges faced by those who create it.
 • Kathryn Vercillo
Creativity Isn’t Just a Spark. It’s a Relationship. It's a Way of Being.
We talk so much about creative output, we can forget that creative being is something we carry even when the materials are untouched.
 • Kathryn Vercillo
The Schubert Treatment: A Story of Music and Healing
Sometimes we need to cry and music helps us get there. Sometimes we need to dance and music helps us get there.
 • Kathryn Vercillo
Musician Interview with Heather Schmid About Transformations
"I am changed forever because of dramatically positive and dramatically difficult struggles that I faced and I hope I am strong and better because of…
 • Kathryn Vercillo
Music as a Moment for Mental Relaxation and Feeling Your Feelings
"I just realized that while I was playing, this playing required so much focus, that I couldn't do anything else. I was just totally in this moment."
 • Kathryn Vercillo
Counting Crows' Adam Duritz - Dissociation, Derealization, and Creative Drive
“If I have to choose between a day when my mental illness was making me feel terrible, and a day when my mental illness was making me feel terrible, but…
 • Kathryn Vercillo
Music and Mental Health in Magazines: Revolver Spring 2024
"Smith wrote the songs in her bedroom, transmuting her feelings into furiously immediate tirades. A kind of therapy. A cleanse." - Emma Madden on…
 • Kathryn Vercillo
Art and Mental Health Interview Answered in Music/Sound Art with Lizzy Co
Exploring the intersection between creativity and mental health through our auditory senses
 • Kathryn Vercillo
Art and Mental Health Interview with Street Photographer Neil Milton
How imposter syndrome, the pandemic and going to therapy relate to the creativity in music and street photography.
 • Kathryn Vercillo
When The Music Stops ... Music for Mental Health, Mental Health Problems in the Industry, and More
A collection from the archives and an exploration of the early days of forming my questions around the ways in which art can both heal and harm us
 • Kathryn Vercillo
Art and Mental Health Interviews with Anonymous Musician
And Sneak Peek Into My Interview Process
 • Kathryn Vercillo
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