Creativity's melancholy canvas. (artists more likely than others to suffer from depression) (Brief Article)

From: Science News | Date: May 7, 1994 | Copyright information

Artists suffer more than their share of depression, a tendency that may fuel their creativity while it shatters their personal lives, according to a report in the April AMERICAN JOURNAL of PSYCHIATRY.

Joseph J. Schildkraut, a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School in Boston, and his colleagues charted the turbulent psychological histories of 15 mid-20th-century abstract expressionists of the New York School, only one of whom is still alive. The researchers made psychiatri...

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