Video: Insane art. Pictures of people suffering from mental illness
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Talented and mentally ill people is like two sides of the same coin. It is not for nothing that non-standard thinking, extraordinary, special people are called abnormal and crazy, and artists whose paintings do not fit into the generally accepted framework and remain incomprehensible to the viewer are advised to undergo a course of medication and psychotherapy. Of course, you can blame as much as you like on the narrow-mindedness and narrow-mindedness of such "advisers", but in some ways they are right. And to be convinced of this, one has only to look at the pictures that paint patients of neuropsychiatric clinics and dispensaries. About creativity mentally ill people we once wrote on Cultural Studies, drawing parallels with the paintings of Bosch, Dali and modern surrealists. And they were not far from the truth. As you know, Salvador Dali was a shocking madcap with non-standard behavior and strange reactions to others. And for inspiration, he often visited mental hospitals, where he looked at pictures of patients who seemed to open doors for him to another world, far from the earthly, real world. Van Gogh's mental health is also in question, because it is not without reason that he deprived himself of an ear. But we admire his paintings to this day. Perhaps, after a while, the pictures of one of the current patients of the Department of Psychoneurology, with whose works we are now acquainting our readers, will be just as popular.
The authors of these paintings are people with a difficult, often tragic fate, and the same tragic diagnosis in their medical records. Schizophrenia and manic depression, neuroses and personality disorders, obsessive states and alcoholic psychosis, the consequences of addiction to drugs and potent medications, all this leaves a deep imprint on the patient's personality, significantly distorts his thinking and outlook on the world, and spills out in the form of pictures, schematic drawings or another kind of creativity. It is not for nothing that mentally ill people have been prescribed a course of art therapy without fail, and their creative works are collected and exhibited in museums and galleries not only in Russia, but also in foreign countries.
Back in the mid-70s, the first (and probably the only) Museum of the Creativity of the Mentally Ill was opened in Russia. Today it is assigned to the Department of Psychiatry and Narcology, and continues to open its doors to both curious visitors and those who are engaged in the scientific research of human madness and genius.
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