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CreativePeople and Trauma
Creative People and Trauma
All of us experience some kinds of trauma in life, to some degree. How does creative
expression help people heal and recover?
And how do can we make use of traumatic experiences in creative work?
Presenter : Douglas Eby
M.A. / Psychology
Creator of the Talent Development Resources
series of sites :
talentdevelop.com
French sculptor, painter, and film maker
Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002)
At age three, Pablo Picasso and his family escaped an earthquake
to live in a cave.
Halle Berry suffered abuse as a child, from her father.
“I think I’ve spent my adult life dealing with the sense of low self-esteem that sort
of implanted in me."
SARK (Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy) is an artist and
bestselling author of fifteen books.
She notes, “I’m a survivor of incest" and for a long time, lived a
"very self-destructive life."
She said she knows that art is healing “because of how it heals me and how I see it healing other
people every day."
Author Jonathan Safran Foer was injured at age eight in a classroom chemical accident and suffered “something like a nervous breakdown drawn out over about three years.”
Psychologist Elaine Aron thinks “high sensitivity increases the impact of all
emotionally tinged events.”
In her book "The Highly Sensitive Child" she notes that some sensitive adolescents
may drink and use drugs to try to overcome anxiety or depression (which may have been started or increased by
trauma) through self-medication.
From my post Sensitive to anxiety.
"Lisbeth Salander survives traumas that might lead to addiction or the suicide of
a less resilient character. Giftedness contributes to her resiliency by aiding her problem solving, which increases
her ability to cope."
From article by psychologist Lisa Erickson: 3 Things To Learn From The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – A Gifted Trauma Survivor
See more examples of people and their experiences, plus notes, links to books,
articles and other resources on the page :
CreativePeople and Trauma