Lecture at Gothic Identity Lectures & Readings at WGT at WGT 2025, Leipzig, Germany
Art of Insanity: Dark Psyche and Mental Disorder in Visual Arts
In this lecture I will explore how the creativity can navigate through the chaos of the mind, how mental illness has shaped some of history’s most haunting masterpieces and will wander through the shadowy corridors of the artistic psyche, where madness and genius blur into one.
As an art therapist, I will also reveal the transformative power of art therapy, which can channel inner darkness into creation rather than destruction. Can artistic ritual soothe the tormented mind and transmute suffering into beauty?..