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Film, Video Depression and Creativity Symposium

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Title

  • Depression and Creativity Symposium

Summary

  • Kay Redfield Jamison, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Mood Disorders Center at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, convened a discussion of the effects of depression on creativity. Joining Jamison were two distinguished colleagues from the fields of neurology and neuropsychiatry, Dr. Terence Ketter and Dr. Peter Whybrow. The Music and the Brain series is co-sponsored by the Library's Music Division and Science, Technology and Business Division, in cooperation with the Dana Foundation. The "Depression and Creativity" symposium marks the bicentennial of the birth of German composer Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), who died after a severe depression following the death of his sister, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, also a gifted composer. Timings: 0:00 - Kay Redfield Jamison, Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University - Discussion of creators with bipolar disorder 27:00 - Terrence Ketter, Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University - "Feelings and Thinking Mechanisms of Creativity in Bipolar Disorder" 53:36 - Peter C. Whybrow, Chairman, Psychiatry, University of California - "The Creative Cycle: The Mendelssohn Bicentennial" 1:26:40 - Question period

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress. Music Division, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2009-02-03.

Headings

  • -  Culture, Performing Arts
  • -  Education
  • -  Performing Arts, Music

Notes

  • -  Classification: Education.
  • -  Classification: Medicine.
  • -  Classification: Music and Books on Music.
  • -  Classification: Science.
  • -  Kay Redfield Jamison, Peter Whybrow, Terence Ketter.
  • -  Recorded on 2009-02-03.
  • -  Researchers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021688050

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Music Division. Depression and Creativity Symposium. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -02-03, 2009. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688050/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & Library Of Congress. Music Division, S. B. (2009) Depression and Creativity Symposium. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -02-03. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688050/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Music Division. Depression and Creativity Symposium. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -02-03, 2009. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021688050/>.