Essential Others and Spontaneous Recovery in the Life and Work of Emily Carr: Implications for Understanding Remission of Illness and Resilience.

Kathryn J Zerbe
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Artist Emily Carr 1A majority of paintings by Emily Carr are in the permanent collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery. Others may be viewed in the National Gallery of Ontario and the British Columbia Archives in Victoria, BC. They are also available as photographed reproductions on the web at vancouverartgallery.bc.ca. 1 (1871-1945) has attained iconic status in Canada and throughout the world for her prodigious output as a painter and writer of the Pacific Northwest. This article describes how the arrival of three "essential others" at pivotal moments in middle life helped lift Carr out of a serious, lifelong depression and nurtured and inspired her creative output. I propose that Carr's productivity and psychological recovery were facilitated by sequential, cumulative input from these generative human contacts. The creative partnership formed between an artist and her muse has features akin to the patient/therapist dyad, ranging from sparking new and healthier adaptations, to reshaping the internal landscape via internalization, to facilitation and promotion of unique talent. This psychobiographical study of Emily Carr is a vehicle for clinicians to further contemplate elements imbedded in our daily work that give rise to greater resilience, spontaneous recovery from illness, and personal transformation in the lives of our patients.

艾米丽·卡尔生活和工作中的重要他人和自发恢复:理解疾病缓解和恢复力的含义。
艾米丽·卡尔的大部分画作都是温哥华美术馆的永久收藏。其他的可以在安大略省国家美术馆和不列颠哥伦比亚省维多利亚的不列颠哥伦比亚省档案馆观看。它们的照片复制品也可以在网站vancouver verartgallery.bc.ca上找到。(1871-1945)作为太平洋西北地区的画家和作家,她以惊人的作品在加拿大乃至全世界获得了标志性的地位。这篇文章描述了在中年生活的关键时刻,三个“不可或缺的人”的到来如何帮助卡尔摆脱了严重的终身抑郁症,并培养和激发了她的创造性产出。我认为卡尔的生产力和心理恢复是由这些有生长性的人际交往带来的连续的、累积的输入所促进的。艺术家和她的缪斯之间形成的创造性伙伴关系具有类似于患者/治疗师二元关系的特征,从激发新的和更健康的适应,到通过内化重塑内部景观,再到促进和促进独特人才。艾米丽·卡尔的心理传记研究为临床医生提供了一个工具,让他们进一步思考我们日常工作中嵌入的因素,这些因素会提高我们患者的复原力,从疾病中自发恢复,并在患者的生活中实现个人转变。
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