Paul Campos comment on "A Beautiful Mind" post

A Beautiful Mind is a fascinating article posted by ChooseAbility's Art. It is quite clear that there is a stigma associated with schizophrenia which for many years has been difficult to shake. It seems that most people would rather run away from those who are diagnosed with it. In my experience with the Arts, it has always been a fascination to see the work of Vincent van Gogh. In my opinion, his artwork epitomizes the role that schizophrenia can play in artistic expression. If you have ever seen the film, "Kurosawa's Dreams", it is easy to see how much an artist, obviously influenced by schizophrenia, can affect another artist's work. What Kurosawa does with Vincent Van Gogh's paintings really captures the imagination. It is easy to see that Kurosawa was truly inspired by Van Gogh in his short story. Here, have a look at this!



The other thing that I like about this article is the optimism Stuart Baker-Brown expresses here. He says, "The link with creativity and schizophrenia has always been evident. Yet research into the understanding of these links has been very limited.
Thankfully, East Carolina University, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and the National Institutes of Health in Britain are starting to research the links between schizophrenia and aspects of human creativity and cognition".

I hope he's right! It would be nice to see something that has been so stigmatized turn into something that can be harnessed to create artistic expression and at the same time destroying the stigma created by society.