Murder and the artist and art and psychosis

Papers relating to art, creativity and mental health (psychosis).

File includes: paper by Rosen, 'Murder and the Artist' which refers to Richard Dadd (but is not entirely about him); manuscript notes on mental processes and the artist; typescript notes from the City of Norwich coroner's report concerning the case of Peter Lawrence Gardside, aged 16, who hanged himself in 1962; newspaper cuttings including one by Edward Adamson on the value of art in helping to cure the mentally sick; notes on psychotic art; annotated typescript entitled 'Art and Psychosis' - a lecture delivered to Oxford University Mental Health Society, Mar 1962 (in which he shows a selection of art by patients); notes on an artistically gifted patient seen at the Maudsley Hospital 1952; typed transcripts of letters by or about Richard Dadd written 1842-1843 - the period when Dadd accompanied Thomas Phillips on an expedition through Europe and the Middle East and underwent a major personality change which culminated in him returning to England and killing his father; Rosen's manuscript notes for his paper on art and psychosis/psychotic art; some correspondence relating to suggested exhibition of art from mental hospitals posited for 1963 or 1964; also some images created by patients being treated by Dr H. Leuner of Gottingen University using psycho hallucinogens.

c.1962

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