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Psychiatry and the arts: new interfaces?

Jonathan Green is Professor of Child Psychiatry at the University of Manchester, and Honorary Consultant Child Psychiatrist to Manchester Children’s Hospitals Trust. He was academic secretary to the Child and Adolescent Faculty of the College from 1994 to 2001 and contributor to the Mind Odyssey conference 2001. His research has included work on autism, early relationships and the systematic analysis of young children’s drawings. His early education in addition to medicine included a Part II Tripos in the History of Art at Cambridge University and a brief period of art school training in Paris and Winchester. He continues to paint alongside medicine and contributed to the recent College ‘Art on the Stairs’ scheme.

Abstract

I discuss the productive interface between psychiatry and the arts in the 20th century and ask whether such an interface is likely to remain as vibrant into the 21st. I review how new models of mental functioning that have an impact on current psychiatric practice have a wider cultural relevance. This editorial looks forward to a series of articles in future issues of APT which will explore some of these ideas in more detail.

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