Comments on: Julian Sheather: Is Prozac destroying the arts? http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2008/06/23/julian-sheather-is-prozac-destroying-the-arts/ Just another blogs.bmj.com weblog Sun, 10 Feb 2013 15:13:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Paolo Tomasi http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2008/06/23/julian-sheather-is-prozac-destroying-the-arts/#comment-2553 Paolo Tomasi Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:30:37 +0000 http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/?p=402#comment-2553 Ah well, this implies that SSRIs are indeed effective… recent data seem to challenge this, so perhaps mr Sheather need not worry!

]]> By: Christian Sinclair http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2008/06/23/julian-sheather-is-prozac-destroying-the-arts/#comment-2550 Christian Sinclair Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:48:14 +0000 http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/?p=402#comment-2550 I have heard that Edvard Munch’s artwork had been claimed to ‘suffer’ in quality after he received therapy. Arts serve as a conduit for emotions so I think your points are well made. There are a few recent authors who have tried to champion the return of meaning in sadness and grief as opposed to make it all seemingly go away in one big happy smile. I cannot think of them right now, but they are out there.

Exploring arts and suffering is part of our new blog Pallimed: Arts & Humanities and Dr. Clarkson has written a post about a painting “Isle of the Dead” demonstrating the effect of arts on grieving.

Thanks for the good read.

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