num_pages: 176
description: Creative Dimensions of Suffering is an intriguing combination of psychiatry and spirituality that illustrates the power of creativity to treat suffering. An examination of the lives of many famous artists who suffered - including Van Gogh Tchaikovsky and Beethoven - gives insight into how they dealt with their adversity through creativity. Dr. Ghadirian explores how various conditions such as alcoholism depression bipolar disorder and dementia can influence a person's creative impulse and how creativity and spirituality can help a person deal with trauma. He describes the courage of many other well-known figures such as Helen Keller and Christopher Reeve who were able to overcome their suffering and emerge victorious over daunting odds. Finally drawing on principles found in the teachings of the Baha'i Faith Ghadirian attempts to explain suffering its place in human society and how it can lead us to a closer happier relationship with God as well as a better relationship with ourselves and with others. Indeed many of those who have suffered the most have found new meaning through adversity and have emerged victorious.
language: English
title: Creative Dimensions of Suffering
publisher: Baha'i Publishing