Views and Brews: Creativity and Depression
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What is unique about the way we understand and experience depression today? What does it mean to be creative? What are the links between depression and creativity? During this one hour program we’ll explore the various layers of these questions and more.
Click on the link above to listen back to the Views and Brews discussion on the topic of depression and creativity, and how to look at both concepts from various perspectives. KUT’s Rebecca McInroy hosts musician, artist and author of An Ocean of Despair, Thor Harris; Professor of English, and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Depression: A Public Feeling-Dr. Ann Cvetkovich; Psychology Teacher, Kaylynn Fenn; and psychoanalyst and author of The Creativity Cure: A Do-It-Yourself Prescription for Happiness, Dr. Carrie Barron.
