![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…
![Lauren Rudolph, paintings, art, grief, emotions, mental health, expression, colours, trauma, grief contained](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2023/08/pexels-alexander-grey-1209843-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Lauren Rudolph is committed to helping people improve their wellbeing through holistic health approaches, poetry, and art. Lauren’s art focuses on mental health, emotions, and…
![schizophrenia, paintings, mental health, visual hallucinations, art, Bryan Charnley, mental illness, recovery, psychiatric ward, paranoia, mental illness, support, institutionalization](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2022/09/jonathan-borba-wHqPodClzqE-unsplash-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Bryan Charnley, 1949-1991, was a British artist who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. After high school, Charnley started at the Leicester School of Art, however, could…
![Compulsive Creativity](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2017/03/Alien-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Out of possible side effects to expect when taking medication for Parkinson’s disease, uncontrollable painting is probably not one of them. Ingrid Hauff-Jacubasch was diagnosed…
![The Suicide of Dorothy Hale](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2016/11/wVlfnlTbRtK8eGvbnBZI_VolkanOlmez_005-_-Unsplash-Cropped-470x140.jpg?x81652)
‘The Suicide of Dorothy Hale’ is considered one of the most controversial paintings by renowned Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. The piece depicts the suicide of…
![Perpetrators of Violence](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2016/09/Leon-Golub-_-Cropped-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Leon Golub’s powerful paintings present visual images of man’s inhumanity to man, abuse of power, violence, and war. Painted more than thirty years ago, his…
![A Persistence of Memory](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2016/08/William-Utermohlen-_-1000-pixels-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Loyola University recently hosted an exhibit on the works of William Utermohlen, an artist who documented his battle with Alzheimer’s disease through self-portraits over a…
![Going High (version 5) - David Richardson](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2012/12/Going-High-version-5-David-Richardson-470x140.jpg?x81652)
“It seems to me that I have two distinct styles to my creativity. The first is when I am in an elated, highed creative state,…