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- Title
Patterns of Art Generating Stress Episodes in Young Musical Performers.
- Authors
LEOVEANU, IONUŢ HORIA T.; GHIVIRIGĂ, TEODORA; DIACONU, IOAN FLORIN; PÎRVU, BOGDAN C. S.; BORZAN, CRISTINA MARIA
- Abstract
There is no denying that the artistic personality is to be found in a class of its own, previous research (including ours) showing that what makes an outstanding difference is the significantly higher degree of its psychopathology. The questionnaires and structured interviews which we applied to a number of high-school arts students in a major Transylvanian city show that the intensive creative episode or, in biopsychocultural terms, the art-generating stress, is basically the interface of a creative process that joins together hypomania and anxiety. Given that such episodes are the sine-qua-non of cultural creativity, the domain-specific artistic personality, restricted in our research to the musical personality (performance, composing), gives further proof to the thesis that (subclinical) psychopathology and cultural creativity are most intimately connected. This vulnerable status of the early-career artists, in view of the larger-than-life upcoming challenges for their mental health, calls for special measures, foremost amongst them being the greater involvement of the school physician.
- Subjects
MENTAL health; MUSICOLOGY; SCHOOL involvement; METROPOLIS; ENTERTAINERS; MUSICAL perception; VOCATIONAL guidance
- Publication
Transylvanian Review, 2019, Vol 28, p297
- ISSN
1221-1249
- Publication type
Article