The Relationship between Knowledge about the Artist’s Mental Illness and Artwork Reception

Art reception is a complex process influenced by many factors, both internal and external. A review of the literature shows that knowledge about the artist, including their mental health, has an impact on the general assessment of their artwork. The purpose of this research was to examine the relationship between knowledge about the artist’s mental illness and the perception of the artwork. We focused on the subjective emotional experience and general assessment of ten specific pictures painted by patients diagnosed with schizophrenia. The research followed four cohorts (two groups divided into two subgroups—art experts and laypeople) of students for over a month. The results revealed significant differences between the two general groups as well as between the ‘expert’ and ‘laypeople’ groups. The findings showed that non-aesthetic categories (e.g., knowledge about the mental illness of an artist) were related to artwork perception and support a holistic and dynamic approach to aesthetic emotions.

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The Relationship between Knowledge about the Artist’s Mental Illness and Artwork Reception

Psych ◽

10.3390/psych1010007 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 92-100

Author(s):

Mateusz Tofilski ◽

Filip Stawski

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Mental Illness ◽

Emotional Experience ◽

Review Of The Literature ◽

Dynamic Approach ◽

Complex Process ◽

The Relationship ◽

Art Experts

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When does geography matter most? Age-specific geographical effects in the patterning of, and relationship between, mental wellbeing and mental illness.

10.1101/2020.07.15.20152645 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Gareth J Griffith ◽

Kelvyn Jones

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Mental Illness ◽

Age Groups ◽

Large Body ◽

Multilevel Modelling ◽

Contextual Effects ◽

Mental Wellbeing ◽

Covariate Adjustment ◽

The Relationship ◽

Geographical Context

Mental illness and mental wellbeing are related but distinct constructs. Despite this, geographical enquiry often references the two as interchangeable indicators of mental health and assumes the relationship between the two is consistent across different geographical scales. Furthermore, the importance of geography in such research is commonly assumed to be static for all age groups, despite the large body of evidence demonstrating contextual effects in age-specific populations. We leverage simultaneous measurement of a mental illness and mental wellbeing metric from Understanding Society, a UK population-based survey, and employ bivariate, cross-classified multilevel modelling to characterise the relationship between geographical context and mental health. Results provide strong evidence for contextual effects for both responses before and after covariate adjustment, with weaker evidence for area-classification and PSU-level contextual effects for the GHQ-12 after covariate adjustment. Results support a two-continua model of mental health at the individual level, but indicates that consensual benefit may be achieved across both dimensions by intervening at household and regional levels. There is also some evidence of a greater contextual effects for mental wellbeing than for mental illness. Results highlight the potential of the household as a target for intervention design for consensual benefit across both constructs. Results highlight the increased importance of geographical context for older respondents across both responses. This research supports an area-based approach to improving both mental illness and mental wellbeing in older populations.

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STAGE PERSONA, STAND-UP COMEDY AND MENTAL HEALTH: ‘PUTTING YOURSELF OUT THERE’

Persona Studies ◽

10.21153/psj2019vol5no2art917 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 67-82

Author(s):

MATT HARGRAVE

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Bipolar Disorder ◽

Mental Illness ◽

Depression And Anxiety ◽

Stand Up Comedy ◽

The Subject ◽

The Relationship

This article addresses the subject of stand-up and mental health through the prism of comic persona, generating new, non-diagnostic discourses around mental illness. The article focuses on British and Australian comedians whose material addresses conditions such as bipolar disorder (John Scott), depression and anxiety (Seymour Mace; Lauren Pattison; Felicity Ward), or feigns the staging of mental collapse (Stewart Lee). Based on the analysis of live events and one-on-one interviews, the essay considers the role that persona plays in mediating the relationship between the comedian and their material, arguing that shaping persona is key to developing practices framed within a poetics of vulnerability.

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Association between recognition and help-seeking preferences and stigma towards people with mental illness

Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences ◽

10.1017/s2045796016000998 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 27 (1) ◽

pp. 84-93 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

L. Picco ◽

E. Abdin ◽

S. Pang ◽

J. A. Vaingankar ◽

A. Jeyagurunathan ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Mental Illness ◽

Confidence Intervals ◽

Mental Health Professionals ◽

Help Seeking ◽

Categorical Variables ◽

Perceived Stigma ◽

Compulsive Disorder ◽

People With Mental Illness ◽

The Relationship

Aims.The ability to recognise a mental illness has important implications as it can aid in timely and appropriate help-seeking, and ultimately improve outcomes for people with mental illness. This study aims to explore the association between recognition and help-seeking preferences and stigmatising attitudes, for alcohol abuse, dementia, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and schizophrenia, using a vignette-based approach.Methods.This was a population-based, cross-sectional survey conducted among Singapore Residents (n = 3006) aged 18–65 years. All respondents were asked what they think is wrong with the person in the vignette and who they should seek help from. Respondents were also administered the Personal and Perceived sub scales of the Depression Stigma Scale and the Social Distance Scale. Weighted frequencies and percentages were calculated for categorical variables. A series of multiple logistic and linear regression models were performed separately by vignette to generate odd ratios and 95% confidence intervals for the relationship between help-seeking preference, and recognition and beta coefficients and 95% confidence intervals for the relationship between stigma and recognition.Results.Correct recognition was associated with less preference to seek help from family and friends for depression and schizophrenia. Recognition was also associated with increased odds of endorsing seeking help from a psychiatric hospital for dementia, depression and schizophrenia, while there was also an increased preference to seek help from a psychologist and psychiatrist for depression. Recognition was associated with less personal and perceived stigma for OCD and less personal stigma for schizophrenia, however, increased odds of social distancing for dementia.Conclusion.The ability to correctly recognise a mental illness was associated with less preference to seek help from informal sources, whilst increased preference to seek help from mental health professionals and services and less personal and perceived stigma. These findings re-emphasise the need to improve mental health literacy and reinforce the potential benefits recognition can have to individuals and the wider community in Singapore.

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Investigating the Impact of Child Maltreatment Histories on Drug Court Outcomes

Criminal Justice and Behavior ◽

10.1177/0093854818761990 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 45 (6) ◽

pp. 799-819 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Haley R. Zettler ◽

Amaia Iratzoqui

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Substance Abuse ◽

Mental Illness ◽

Criminal Justice ◽

Child Maltreatment ◽

Drug Court ◽

Criminal Justice Policy ◽

Type Of Failure ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship

Although child maltreatment, mental illness, and substance abuse are significantly correlated, only the relationship between mental illness and substance abuse has been documented as potentially affecting the implementation of criminal justice policy. The current study considers the influence of child maltreatment histories in addition to mental health and substance abuse issues in predicting the success of participants in a large drug court in the Southwestern United States. Results indicated that child maltreatment was not predictive of overall court failure. However, child maltreatment had an indirect effect on type of failure, through its effects on mental illness and substance abuse diagnoses. Implications for these findings within drug court and for general criminal justice policy are discussed.

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Maternal mental illness and mother-child relations

Advances in Psychiatric Treatment ◽

10.1192/apt.4.3.135 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 4 (3) ◽

pp. 135-143 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

David M. Foreman

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Mental Illness ◽

Personal Development ◽

Maternal Mental Illness ◽

The Relationship ◽

Mother Child Relations

Interest in the relationship between mother-child interactions and mental health has two sources: awareness of the importance of correct parenting in personal development; and the exploration of postnatal mental illness.

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Complex Emotions: Relations, Feelings and Images in Emotional Experience

The Sociological Review ◽

10.1111/j.1467-954x.2002.tb03596.x ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 50 (2_suppl) ◽

pp. 151-167 ◽

Cited By ~ 32

Author(s):

Ian Burkitt

Keyword(s):

Emotional Experience ◽

Relational Patterns ◽

Complex Process ◽

Complex Emotions ◽

The Social ◽

Structures Of Feeling ◽

Bodily Activity ◽

Bodily Feelings ◽

Relational Experience ◽

The Relationship

In this chapter I argue that emotions are experienced primarily as structures of feeling which give meaning to relational experience. These feelings can be articulated through speech genres or discourses which give them form as specific emotions that have a place in the emotional vocabulary of a culture. Thus, I seek to distinguish between feeling and thought and attempt to trace the complex process through which feelings become emotions. This involves a reconsideration of the relation between body and thought, and the material and the ideal, as it appears in the work of various thinkers. Central to this is the role of image-schemata (Johnson, 1987) that mediate between the recurring relational patterns of bodily activity in the world, which makes experience meaningful, and the symbolic structures of the social group that can be used to articulate bodily feelings metaphorically. Feelings and emotions, then, while in a complex relationship to one another, are not always identical: they can in fact diverge, giving rise to the ambiguous nature of much emotional experience. Finally, all of this is considered in the light of power relations and the way that emotional dynamics play a central role in power. Anglo-Saxons who are uncomfortable with the idea that feelings and emotions are the outward signs of precise and complex algorithms usually have to be told that these matters, the relationship between the self and others, and the relationship between self and environment, are, in fact, the subject matter of what are called ‘feelings’— love, hate, fear, confidence, anxiety, hostility, etc. It is unfortunate that these abstractions referring to patterns of relationship have received names, which are usually handled in ways that assume that the ‘feelings’ are mainly characterized by quantity rather than by precise pattern. This is one of the nonsensical contributions of psychology to a distorted epistemology (Bateson, 1973: 113).

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Parental Mental Health in Childhood as a Risk Factor for Anxiety and Depression among People Seeking Help for Tinnitus and Hyperacusis

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology ◽

10.3766/jaaa.18001 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 30 (09) ◽

pp. 772-780 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Hashir Aazh ◽

Ali A. Danesh ◽

Brian C. J. Moore

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Mental Illness ◽

Risk Factor ◽

Mental Health Disorders ◽

Anxiety And Depression ◽

Future Research ◽

Parental Mental Illness ◽

Parental Mental Health ◽

Health Disorders ◽

The Relationship

AbstractParental mental illness is a risk factor for mental health disorders in the offspring. However, the relationship between parental illness in childhood and mental health disorders in adulthood among patients with tinnitus and/or hyperacusis is not known.The aim was to explore the relationship between parental mental health in childhood and anxiety and depression for patients experiencing tinnitus and/or hyperacusis.This was a retrospective cross-sectional study with a correlational design.Two hundred eighty-seven consecutive patients who attended a Tinnitus and Hyperacusis Therapy Specialist Clinic in the United Kingdom were included. Their average age was 52.5 years.The association was explored between anxiety and depression measured via the Generalized Anxiety Disorder questionnaire (GAD-7) and the Patient Health questionnaire (PHQ-9) and responses to the question “While you were growing up during the first 18 years of life did your parent(s) have depression or mental illness?”Thirty-nine percent of patients (111/287) responded “yes” to the question about their parents’ mental health, which is about double the incidence in the general population. Regression analysis showed that parental mental illness significantly increased the risk of anxiety and depression, with unadjusted odds ratios (ORs) of 2.7 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.5–4.9, p = 0.001) for the PHQ-9 and 2.6 (95% CI: 1.4–4.8, p = 0.002) for the GAD-7. However, when the models were adjusted for the effects of age, gender, tinnitus handicap as measured via the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory, hyperacusis handicap as measured via the Hyperacusis questionnaire, uncomfortable loudness levels, GAD-7 scores (for the depression model only), and PHQ-9 scores (for the anxiety model only), parental mental health was only significantly associated with depression, with an OR of 2.7 (95% CI: 1.08–6.7, p = 0.033).Audiologists offering tinnitus and hyperacusis rehabilitation should screen patients for parental mental illness in childhood, especially for those with comorbid depression, and make onward referral to appropriate mental health services when needed. Future research should analyze the breadth and type of adverse childhood experiences among patients with tinnitus and hyperacusis and their relationship with mental problems and treatment efficacy.

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Mental health courts: Providing access to justice for people with mental illness and cognitive impairments

Alternative Law Journal ◽

10.1177/1037969x19845681 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 44 (2) ◽

pp. 100-107

Author(s):

Liz Richardson

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Mental Illness ◽

Peer Support ◽

Cognitive Impairments ◽

Evidence Base ◽

Access To Justice ◽

Mental Health Courts ◽

People With Mental Illness ◽

Trauma Informed ◽

The Relationship

Mental health courts have been established in four Australian jurisdictions to provide a targeted response to people with mental illness and cognitive impairments coming through the courts. This article provides an up-to-date overview of Australian mental health courts, discusses the evidence base underpinning them and identifies three important emerging directions for their future operation. These are the need for a contextualised understanding of the relationship between mental illness and offending, the importance of trauma-informed approaches and the role that peer support workers can play in mental health courts.

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