| 期刊全称 | BipolART | | 期刊简称 | Art and Bipolar Diso | | 影响因子2023 | Denys N. Wheatley | | 视频video | | | 发行地址 | Combines science with art.Is relevant to therapy.Advances understanding of brain activity during bipolar disorder.Includes supplementary material: .Includes supplementary material: | | 图书封面 |  | | 影响因子 | Written with disarming honesty by a long-term sufferer of bipolar disorder, with more than half a century’s experience of intervention and treatment, this highly personal volume traces the effectiveness of a therapy modality for mental illness that has gained much ground in the past two decades: art. The author began to use art, and in particular doodling, from 1998 as a way of externalizing his feelings. Its expressiveness, accessibility and energy-efficiency was ideally suited to the catatonia he experienced during the bouts of depression that are a feature of bipolar disorder, while as the low moods lifted and his energy surged, he completed more ambitious and elaborate works.As well as being highly eclectic, Wheatley’s assembled oeuvre has afforded him both insights and therapeutic intervention into his condition, once deemedhighly debilitating and taboo, but much more socially accepted now that well known sufferers such as Stephen Fry have recounted their experiences of the condition.After an opening account of how the images were generated, the volume reproduces a ‘gallery’ of selected work, and then offers an extended epilogue analyzing the art’s connections with the disorde | | Pindex | Book 2012 |
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