Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. The Complicated Relationship between Creativity and Psychopathology (pp. 1-14)
Chapter 2. Creativity and Insanity: The Enigmatic Medical Biography of Nikolai Gogol (pp. 15-38)
Chapter 3. The Tragic Life and Suicide of Vsevolod Garshin (1855-1888): Creativity and Affective Disorder (pp. 39-64)
Chapter 4. Mikalojus Ciurlionis’s Illness and Its Relationship to His Creativity (pp. 65-88)
Chapter 5. Creativity and Mood Disorders: Isaak Levitan (pp. 89-110)
Chapter 6. Pyotr Tchaikovsky: The Struggle with Identity and Suicide (pp. 111-138)
Chapter 7. Modest Mussorgsky: Distorted Pictures at an Exhibition (pp. 139-184)
Chapter 8. Muse and Alcohol: Alexey Kondratyevich Savrasov (1830-1897) (pp. 185-204)
Chapter 9. Alcoholism (pp. 205-210)
Chapter 10. Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881): Creativity, Epilepsy, and Religion (pp. 211-258)
Chapter 11. Epilepsy (pp. 259-268)
Chapter 12. Alexander Scriabin: Enlightenment or Illness? (pp. 269-290)
Chapter 13. The Flight and the Downfall of the Demon: Creativity and Illness in Vrubel’s Life (pp. 291-316)
Epilogue (pp. 317-318)
Index (pp. 319)
This book is intended to physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, sociologists and anthropologists, and also to art scholars and historians. The book will also be of interest to nonprofessional people