Poets on Prozac (ePub)
Mental Illness, Treatment, and the Creative Process
(Sprache: Englisch)
In this collection of 16 essays, poets discuss psychiatric treatment and their work.
Poets on Prozacshatters the notion that madness fuels creativity by giving voice to contemporary poets who have battled myriad psychiatric disorders, including...
Poets on Prozacshatters the notion that madness fuels creativity by giving voice to contemporary poets who have battled myriad psychiatric disorders, including...
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In this collection of 16 essays, poets discuss psychiatric treatment and their work.
Poets on Prozacshatters the notion that madness fuels creativity by giving voice to contemporary poets who have battled myriad psychiatric disorders, including depression, schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress disorder, and substance abuse.
The sixteen essays collected here address many provocative questions: Does emotional distress inspire great work? Is artistry enhanced or diminished by mental illness? What effect does substance abuse have on esthetic vision? Do psychoactive medications impinge on ingenuity? Can treatment enhance inherent talents, or does relieving emotional pain shut off the creative process?
Featuring examples of each contributor's poetry before, during, and after treatment, this original and thoughtful collection finally puts to rest the idea that a tortured soul is one's finest muse.
Honorable Mention, 2008 PROSE Award for Best Book in Psychology.
"A fascinating collection of 16 essays, as insightful as they are compulsively readable. Each is honest and sharply written, covering a range of issues (depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, psychosis, substance abuse or, in acutely deadpan Andrew Hudgins's case, "tics, twitches, allergies, tooth-grinding, acid reflux, migraines ... and shingles") along with treatment methods, incorporating personal anecdotes and excerpts from poems and journals.... Anyone affected by mental illness or intrigued by the question of its role in the arts should find this volume absorbing." -Publishers Weekly
"Berlin has done a marvelous job of showing us how ordinary poets are; the selected poets have shown us that mental illness shares with other experiences a capacity to reveal our humanity." -Metapsychology
Poets on Prozacshatters the notion that madness fuels creativity by giving voice to contemporary poets who have battled myriad psychiatric disorders, including depression, schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress disorder, and substance abuse.
The sixteen essays collected here address many provocative questions: Does emotional distress inspire great work? Is artistry enhanced or diminished by mental illness? What effect does substance abuse have on esthetic vision? Do psychoactive medications impinge on ingenuity? Can treatment enhance inherent talents, or does relieving emotional pain shut off the creative process?
Featuring examples of each contributor's poetry before, during, and after treatment, this original and thoughtful collection finally puts to rest the idea that a tortured soul is one's finest muse.
Honorable Mention, 2008 PROSE Award for Best Book in Psychology.
"A fascinating collection of 16 essays, as insightful as they are compulsively readable. Each is honest and sharply written, covering a range of issues (depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, psychosis, substance abuse or, in acutely deadpan Andrew Hudgins's case, "tics, twitches, allergies, tooth-grinding, acid reflux, migraines ... and shingles") along with treatment methods, incorporating personal anecdotes and excerpts from poems and journals.... Anyone affected by mental illness or intrigued by the question of its role in the arts should find this volume absorbing." -Publishers Weekly
"Berlin has done a marvelous job of showing us how ordinary poets are; the selected poets have shown us that mental illness shares with other experiences a capacity to reveal our humanity." -Metapsychology
Autoren-Porträt
Richard M. Berlin, M.D., is an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts, a psychiatrist in private practice, and a published poet. He writes a monthly poetry column for Psychiatric Times and is the author of How JFK Killed My Father, a collection of poems about illness and the healing arts.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Richard M. Berlin
- Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
- ISBN-10: 0801895294
- ISBN-13: 9780801895296
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