Written with disarming honesty by a long-term sufferer of bipolar disorder, with more than half a century s experience of intervention and treatment, this highly personal volume traces the effectiveness of a therapy modality for mental illness that has gained much ground in the past two decades: art. The author began to use art, and in particular doodling, from 1998 as a way of externalizing his feelings. Its expressiveness, accessibility and energy-efficiency was ideally suited to the catatonia he experienced during the bouts of depression that are a feature of bipolar disorder, while as the...
Written with disarming honesty by a long-term sufferer of bipolar disorder, with more than half a century s experience of intervention and treatment, ...