A Comparative Study of Art Expression of Schizophrenic, Unipolar Depressive, and Bipolar Manic-Depressive Patients

Wadeson, Harriet; Carpenter, William T.

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“…The earliest studies on patients drawing their illness date back some 50 years (eg, where patients with psychiatric diagnoses drew their representations of depression and other psychiatric conditions). 13 More recently, drawings have been utilized in virtually all categories of chronic somatic diseases (eg, ranging from asthma to vaginal thrush), in children (with cystic fibrosis [CF], for instance) and adults (eg, with lung cancer). 14 , 5 In the area of chronic respiratory diseases, only a handful of drawing studies are available.…”

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COPD depicted – patients drawing their lungs

Kaptein¹,

Tiemensma²,

Broadbent³

et al. 2017

COPD

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BackgroundGiven the increasing importance of patient-reported outcomes (PRO) in quality medical care, we examined the value and feasibility of an innovative method for assessing patients’ illness perceptions, represented in drawings made by patients with COPD of their lungs.AimThe aim of our study was: to study patients’ representation of COPD as reflected in their drawings of their lungs; and to examine scores on a validated measure that assesses illness perceptions (ie, Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire [B-IPQ]).Patients and methodsOne hundred outpatients with COPD, mean age 70 years, selected from a pharmacy database, participated and 98 filled out the B-IPQ. Eighty-seven patients completed the drawing task.ResultsThe illness perceptions as reflected in the responses to the B-IPQ scales represented a quite optimistic view of COPD and its consequences. The drawings of the lungs reflected a considerable discordance between patients’ representations and medically accepted representations of lungs of a person with COPD.ConclusionAssessing illness perceptions in clinical care and research about COPD offers opportunities to identify goals for patient education and self-management. Inviting patients to draw their illness is an innovative and promising approach to assessing PRO.

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COPD depicted – patients drawing their lungs

Kaptein¹,

Tiemensma²,

Broadbent³

et al. 2017

COPD

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“…For example, in the case of the dementias, Gretton and fytche [11] were able to distinguish changes in the use of the canvas, the colour palette and artistic themes amongst artists with Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementias and Lewy Bodies disease and link these features to neurological deficits and imaging findings. This insight is harder to achieve in psychiatric conditions as pictorial characteristics are not necessarily closely associated with diagnosis [32]; this likely stems from the heterogeneous and dynamic nature of these disorders and the far less defined neuropathology [1; 29]. However, it turns out that pictorial features are of great value in longitudinal studies that provide a dynamic understanding of the patient, regardless of diagnosis [32].…”

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“…They were not able to use these pictorial characteristics to reliably classify participants in the three diagnostic groups but the longitudinal information extracted for each participant was found to be helpful in the planning of their treatment; in their own words: “ the art evaluations have proved most useful in comparing pictures made by the same patient at different times thereby eliminating variables of artistic ability, art experience, hand-eye coordination, intelligence and other factors that may affect comparisons across individuals” [32]. …”

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The Art of Pain: A Quantitative Colour Analysis of the Self-Portraits of Frida Kahlo

Turkheimer

Liu

Fagerholm

et al. 2022

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Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) was a Mexican artist who is remembered for her self-portraits, pain and passion, and bold, vibrant colours. This work aims to use her life story and her artistic production in a longitudinal study to examine with quantitative tools the effects of physical and emotional pain (rage) on artistic expression.Kahlo suffered from polio as a child, was involved in a bus accident as a teenager where she suffered multiple fractures of her spine and had 30 operations throughout her lifetime. She also had a tempestuous relationship with her painter husband, Diego Rivera. Her physical and personal troubles however became the texture of her vivid visual vocabulary — usually expressed through the depiction of Mexican and indigenous culture or the female experience and form.We applied colour analysis to a series of Frida’s self-portraits and revealed a very strong association of physical pain and emotional rage with low wavelength colours (red and yellow), indicating that the expression of her ailments was, consciously or not, achieved by increasing the perceived luminance of the canvas. Further quantitative analysis that used the fractal dimension identified “The broken column” as the portrait with higher compositional complexity, which matches previous critical acclaim of this portrait as the climax of her art. These results confirm the ability of colour analysis to extract emotional and cognitive features from artistic work. We suggest that these tools could be used as markers to support artistic and creative interventions in mental health.

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“…There is evidence that the within-group variability among diagnoses is too great for the latter method to have any predictive value. Wadeson & Carpenter (1976) abandoned a comparative study of unipolar depressive, schizophrenic, and bipolar manic-depressive art after collecting the raw data. The reason given was the enormous within-group variability found.…”

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Characteristics of Paintings Associated with the Depth of Depression in Schizophrenics

Sturgess¹,

Maas²

1982

Aus Occup Therapy J

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It was hypothesized that the degree of depth of depression of schizophrenic patients would vary with five characteristics of their paintings. Three independent raters for each of the five characteristics ranked the paintings for the degree of the particular characteristic present. Highly significant inter-rater reliability was found, but no association between the depth of depression anti the five variables could be demonstrated.

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A Comparative Study of Art Expression of Schizophrenic, Unipolar Depressive, and Bipolar Manic-Depressive Patients

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Characteristics of Paintings Associated with the Depth of Depression in Schizophrenics

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The Art of Pain: A Quantitative Colour Analysis of the Self-Portraits of Frida Kahlo

Characteristics of Paintings Associated with the Depth of Depression in Schizophrenics

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