Personality as art : artistic approaches in psychology

Abstract

PART I: Background Introduction: what is artistic psychology Artistic leanings in British academic psychology PART II: A personal journey from science to art Getting out of science, and why Transvestism as the bridge: two personalities The artist-experimenter identity in psychology PART III: Studies of the beauty of the personality Desmond: the experience of schizotypy Ivo: witness to the preternatural Jill: coping with, and beating, 'hard-core' depression 'Me and my Mummy': the ocean and the fish Trevor: flower of defiance Reflections on personality studies PART IV: Writers on personality Oscar Wilde: the differentiated personality Dostoyevsky: the underground man Stories, poems and personality (by Jonathan Smith) PART V: Applications mplications for therapy Implications for education Conclusions: the mixed-method future of psychology

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