BipolART Art and Bipolar Disorder: A Personal Perspective
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 ga
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Denys N. Wheatley
“BipolART” Art and Bipolar Disorder: A Personal Perspective
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Dr. Denys N. Wheatley BioMedES Leggat House, Keithhall Inverurie Aberdeenshire, AB51 0LX UK
ISBN 978-94-007-4871-2 ISBN 978-94-007-4872-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-4872-9 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2012944647 © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2012 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science + Business Media (www.springer.com)
Acknowledgements
To have written this book at my time of life, I am eternally grateful to my family, who have seen me through many long periods of depression, and at other times where I have been almost unmanageably manic. They must have suffered almost as much as myself in their way, but they have held me together such that I nevertheless could pursue a rewarding career in cancer research. I particularly want to thank my former wife, Pamela, my two daughters, Nina and Sally, and my present partner, Jean Fletcher. I have been encouraged to write this book by a number of colleagues, some of whom know that I have bipolar disorder and others that are not so aware of my condition; they include Edward Mercer, Bhanu Jena, Reginald Goldacre, Ian Clark, and Lee Tsun Hou. There have been others, who—as artists themselves—saw that my efforts were not in vane; indeed they seem to indicate that I could have been something of an artist if I had chosen this as a career. These include Jennifer Jane Bayliss, Douglas Prosser, Bert Menco, Cynthia Coda, Jacqui Robertson and Marian Reid. The Carnegie Trust of Scotland was generous in giving me an award as an emeritus staff of Aberdeen University to start this project. It would not have progressed much further if Springer (Dordrecht) had not also encouraged me after seeing my portfolio, and taken the bold step of offering a contract for the publishing of this book. Its content lies intentionally somewhere between science and art; it is neither a scientific/medical monograph nor an art book. Today we are seeing renewed and welcome activity in the interface between science and art, and how together they impact on society. I hope that my work will add a further small step in this direction. Some of the paintings and drawings have been on show in local exhibitions, which has resulted in quite a number being purchased. Other pictures have been given to members of my family, whom I hope one day will see these works and the ones I will later leave as a tangible legacy. However, I cannot assume that the artwork will survive the test of time! I also wish to acknowledge many of my newer friend
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