Bipolar Disorder and The Arts: Mark Vonnegut’s Story
Posted in: Multimedia, Videos
Topics: Culture + Society, Mental Illness + Psychiatric Disorders
Despite our growing awareness of mental health conditions, the relationship between creativity and mental illness is often misunderstood. In this short film, Dr. Mark Vonnegut – son of American writer Kurt Vonnegut – discusses how art helped him to overcome his own mental health challenges while living with bipolar disorder, and why mental illness doesn’t have to be a barrier to achievement and creativity.
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Steven Schlozman, MD, is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (HMS), course director of the psychopathology class for the MIT-HMS Program in Health, Sciences and Technology, and former co-director of the Clay Center for Youn...
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