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BipolART - Art and Bipolar Disorder: A Personal Perspective (Hardcover, 2012 ed.)
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BipolART - Art and Bipolar Disorder: A Personal Perspective (Hardcover, 2012 ed.)
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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
deemed highly 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 disorder as well as the
author's assessment of how each attempt at visual self-expression
was, for him, a therapeutic intervention. Wheatley, a cell
biologist who has enjoyed a full career in cancer research, has had
no formal training in art, yet his haunting pictures, many of them
resembling life forms, are brought to life by his perceptive,
self-aware commentary. This book will be of interest to
psychologists and psychiatrists among the wider medical profession
as well as people suffering from any form of bipolar disorder
whatever the severity.
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