The Assets of the Mentally Handicapped: The Interplay of Mental Illness and Creativity

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The Assets of the Mentally Handicapped: The Interplay of Mental Illness and CreativityFrieda Fromm-Reichmann and Ann-Louise S. SilverFrieda Fromm-ReichmannMedical Staff, Chestnut Lodge Hospital (Rockville, Maryland), Instructor, Extension Program, Washington Psychoanalytic Institute; Clinical Associate Professor, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences; Faculty, Washington School of Psychiatry.Search for more papers by this author and Ann-Louise S. SilverMedical Staff, Chestnut Lodge Hospital (Rockville, Maryland), Instructor, Extension Program, Washington Psychoanalytic Institute; Clinical Associate Professor, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences; Faculty, Washington School of Psychiatry.Chestnut Lodge, 500 West Montgomery Avenue, Rockville, MD 20850Search for more papers by this authorPublished Online:July 2017https://doi.org/10.1521/jaap.1.1990.18.1.47PDFPDF PLUS ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations AboutReferencesAnonymous (by a late inmate of the Glasgow Royal Asylum for Lunatics at Gartnavel) (1947), The Philosophy of Insanity; with an Introduction by Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, M.D., Greenberg, New York. Google ScholarBeers C. (1948), A Mind That Found Itself, Doubleday, New York. Google ScholarBoisen A. (1936), The Exploration of the Inner World: A Study of Mental Disorder and Religious Experience, Willett, Clark and Co., Chicago. Google ScholarBrown C. (1944), Brainstorm, Farrar and Rinehart, New York. Google ScholarFromm E. (1941), Escape from Freedom, Rinehart and Co., New York. Google ScholarFromm-Reichmann F. (1959), Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: Selected Papers, Bullard D. M., Ed., University of Chicago Press, Chicago. Google ScholarGoldstein K. (1939), The Organism: A Holistic Approach to Biology Derived from Pathological Data in Man, American Book Co., New York. Crossref, Google ScholarHilliard J. (1926), Reluctantly Told, Macmillan, New York. Google ScholarNijinsky Romola de Pulszky (1934), Nijinsky, Simon & Schuster, New York. Google ScholarPeters F. (1949), The World Next Door, Farrar, Strauss & Co., New York. Google ScholarWard M. J. (1946), The Snake Pit, Random House, New York. Google Scholar Previous article Next article FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Cited byCited by1. “Under the black sun of the silence, the words burned slowly” (Pizarnik) use of literature in a therapeutic group in a closed psychiatric ward – as a creative way to return to recovery processOnline publication date: 22 August 2022. Go to citation Crossref Google Scholar2. Treating Dissociative and Psychotic Disorders PsychodynamicallyOnline publication date: 19 November 2018. Go to citation Crossref Google Scholar3. Beyond countertransference: Therapists’ experiences in clinical relationships with patients diagnosed with schizophreniaOnline publication date: Go to citation Crossref Google ScholarAnn–Louise S. Silver4. In the Footsteps of Arieti and Fromm–Reichmann: Psychodynamic Treatments of Psychosis in the Current EraOnline publication date: 31 January 2006. Go to citation Crossref Google Scholar5. A Prothalamion to the Wedding of Inspiration and PerspirationOnline publication date: Go to citation Crossref Google Scholar6. Induced poetry and prose recall: A transfer of the induced song recall techniqueOnline publication date: Go to citation Crossref Google ScholarKathryn J. Zerbe7. The Phoenix Rises from Eros, Not Ashes: Creative Collaboration in the Lives of Five Impressionist and Postimpressionist Women ArtistsOnline publication date: 13 July 2017. Go to citation Crossref Google Scholar Volume 18Issue 1Mar 1990 Information© 1990 by The American Academy of PsychoanalysisPDF download