![Dissociative Identity Disorder, DID, Multiple Personalities, Mental Health, Art, Art Piece, Stigma, Creativity, Psychology, Disorder](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2024/03/taylor-deas-melesh-fkaQ-cqU4Uo-unsplash-470x140.jpg?x81652)
This art piece was created by Kim Noble who is a mother, artist, and author who has Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). Through her thought provoking…
![Paintings, Schizophrenia, Artist, Creative, Psychosis, Psychotic, Delusions, Hallucinations, Art, Creativity](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2023/12/greg-rakozy-oMpAz-DN-9I-unsplash-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Mitchell Rockert was a brilliant artist, musician, son, brother, cousin, and friend, and he struggled for many years with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a disorder in…
![Victorian art, Dadd, Paranoid Schizophrenia, Painting, Mental Illness, Creativity](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2019/11/B20615AC-53AB-4E42-8B32-42DCDC2AD9C9-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
Richard Dadd was a Victorian era English painter who had a penchant for creating imaginative paintings of fairies and the supernatural, which he rendered with…
![Dementia, Death, Sculptures, Anxiety, Courage, Creativity, Images, Psychology, Mental Health, Neoclassical art](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2019/07/36A69832-728E-45AC-913F-2A79126ABBAC-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
Yannoulis Chalepas is well-regarded as being the most notable sculptor of modern Greece. Born in 1851, Chalepas followed in his father’s footsteps by helping run…
![mental health, mental wellness, community, art, artist, space, drop-in, free, low-income, depression, anxiety, treatment, creativity](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2019/06/80535A2E-4C13-4C91-9092-7CBF3E7DE737-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
Inspired by long wait lists and inaccessible psychotherapy costs, Toronto comedian Shelley Marshall opened a free mental wellness centre in her home. Shelley herself has…
![Schizophrenia, Death, Portrait, Minimalism, Resilience, Creativity, Images, Psychology, Mental Health, Hallucinations](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2019/04/2A7A0678-79BA-4D51-A448-5E86B60BFF56-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
Agnes Martin was born in Canada in 1912, and moved to America in 1931, where she began her successful life as a minimalist artist. Over…
![Suicide, Death, Portrait, Post-impressionism, Dysentery, Creativity, Images, Psychology, Mental Health, Suffering](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2019/03/C520AA92-71B0-4C67-A901-4969373870A8-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
“Day of the God (Mahana no Atua)” was painted in 1894 by Paul Gauguin. Gauguin was a French post-impressionist artist who only became renowned after his…
![Paranoid-Dementia,-Death,-Portrait,-Hallucinations,-Realism,-Creativity,-Images,-Psychology,-Mental-Health,-Suffering,-Francisco-Goya,-La-Maja-Desnuda](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2019/02/Paranoid-Dementia-Death-Portrait-Hallucinations-Realism-Creativity-Images-Psychology-Mental-Health-Suffering-Francisco-Goya-La-Maja-Desnuda-e1550680066970-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Considered the most important Spanish painter from the late 18th century and early 19th century, Francisco Goya is one of the greatest contemporary portraitists. He also suffered from…
![Never Too Late to Start](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2018/12/painting-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Making art has always been a part of human expression and seems to have positive effects for individuals working through various emotional turmoil. Art does not…