Virginia Woolf: enfermedad mental y creatividad artística

This is an attempt to evaluate the mental disorder that the novelist Virginia Woolf suffered, and to determine the relatioship between her creativity and her insanity. What mostly characterizes her illness is the presence of typical phases of severely impairing depression and significant hypomania,...

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Autor principal:	Figueroa C,Gustavo
Lenguaje:	Spanish / Castilian
Publicado:	Sociedad Médica de Santiago 2005
Materias:	Biography Bipolar disorders Literature Personality disorders Psychopathology
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0034-988720050011000152006-01-24Virginia Woolf: enfermedad mental y creatividad artísticaFigueroa C,Gustavo Biography Bipolar disorders Literature Personality disorders Psychopathology This is an attempt to evaluate the mental disorder that the novelist Virginia Woolf suffered, and to determine the relatioship between her creativity and her insanity. What mostly characterizes her illness is the presence of typical phases of severely impairing depression and significant hypomania, culminating in suicide at the age of 59. This is a convincing life history of a bipolar II disorder, although the «broad bipolar spectrum» is less easy to define operational than bipolar disorder I. She was moderately stable as well as exceptionally productive from 1915 until she committed suicide in 1941. Virginia Woolf created little or nothing while she was unwell, and was productive between attacks. A detailed analysis of her own creativity over the years shows that her illnesses were the source of material for her novelsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Médica de SantiagoRevista médica de Chile v.133 n.11 20052005-11-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872005001100015es10.4067/S0034-98872005001100015
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description	This is an attempt to evaluate the mental disorder that the novelist Virginia Woolf suffered, and to determine the relatioship between her creativity and her insanity. What mostly characterizes her illness is the presence of typical phases of severely impairing depression and significant hypomania, culminating in suicide at the age of 59. This is a convincing life history of a bipolar II disorder, although the «broad bipolar spectrum» is less easy to define operational than bipolar disorder I. She was moderately stable as well as exceptionally productive from 1915 until she committed suicide in 1941. Virginia Woolf created little or nothing while she was unwell, and was productive between attacks. A detailed analysis of her own creativity over the years shows that her illnesses were the source of material for her novels
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Virginia Woolf: enfermedad mental y creatividad artística

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