Art and madness
By: José Guimón ; translated by Eoin McGirr and Mervyn Henderson.
Series: Contemporary European cultural studies
Publisher: Davies Group
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Aurora, Colo
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781888570861
Subjects: Psychology, Pathological -- Miscellanea.; Art and mental illness.; Artists -- Psychology.; Creative ability.; Creativeness -- Case Reports.; Art -- Case Reports.; Mental Disorders -- psychology -- Case Reports.; Psychoanalytic Theory.
Genres: Miscellanea.; Case Reports.
Work titles: Art et psychiatrie.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Is there a hereditary disposition to creativity?; value: The disinhibition of cortical control; value: Psychological characteristics; value: Creativity and drugs; value: Anxiety and depersonalisation; value: Psychotic experiences; value: Affective disorders; value: The emergence of the unconscious; value: Perversion and artistic creativity; value: The uncanny; value: Narcissistic traumas; value: Alterations of the image of the body; value: Grief; value: Non-conformism, dandyism and decadentism; value: Avant-garde; value: Postmodernism; value: Obscenity and pornography; value: Art as therapy.