The Myth of the Tortured Artist (video)

The Art Assignment, October 2018; Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The Myth of the Tortured Artist
Are artists really more tortured than the rest of us? Let's consider this myth and the studies that assess whether there might be a link between creativity and mental illness.

Artists really are A-holes. Their art is still good, probably because of it.

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• STUDIES Karolinska Institutet, 2013: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...; Karolinska Institutet, 2011: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...; Buffalo State, 2017: sciencedirect.com/science...; Johns Hopkins U., 1990: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...; Centers for Disease Control, 2016: cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/65/w... 
• ARTICLES Kay Redfield Jamison’s “Manic- Depressive Illness and Creativity”: pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a0e3...; The Real Link Between Creativity and Mental Illness”: blogs.scientificamerican.com/...; Critique of Redfield Jamison findings: scottbarrykaufman.com/wp-cont...; “The relationship between measures of creativity and schizotypy”: psychologytoday.com/files...; The latest research on creativity and the arts, June 2014: apa.org/monitor/2014/06/ar... 
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