Artists of all types suffer greatly from grave emotional disorders like depression and manic-depressive illness. Indeed, some of the most outstanding creative artists in history, according to one recent study, seem to have been afflicted by some significant degree of neurotic or psychotic depression and/or mania: the poets Antonin Artaud, Charles Baudelaire, William Blake, Lord Byron, Emily Dickenson, T. S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, Edgar Allen Poe and Walt Whitman; authors Hans Christian Andersen, Samuel Clemens, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, Herman Melville, Eugene O’Neill, Mary Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Styron and Virginia Woolf; composers Hector Berlioz, Anton Bruckner, Gustav Mahler, and Sergey Rachmaninoff; and painters Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Michelangelo, Edvard Munch, Georgia O’Keefe and Jackson Pollock each manifested psychopathological symptoms sufficient to interfere with their ability to function, require psychiatric hospitalization or incite them to suicide.
Posted on: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 19:50:43 +0000
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