Title: Artists in Crisis
Subtitle: Rethinking the Mental Health Challenges of Creative and Performing Artists
Subject Classification:  Psychology, Counselling, Arts  
BIC Classification: JM, LA, MMH
BISAC Classification: PSY031000, PSY036000, MED105000
Binding: Hardback, eBook
Planned publication date: Dec 2025
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-83711-334-7
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-83711-335-4

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Description

We are facing global mental health challenges and crises with multiple causes. One specific crisis that this volume in the EIP Critical Psychology and Critical Psychiatry series intends to address is the crisis facing creative and performing artists, who display significantly higher rates of distress and difficulty than do members of the general population.

The book addresses the questions: What are the lived experiences of our contemporary creative and performing artists? What are the specific, identifiable challenges of the creative life? To what extent are a creator’s troubles a function of the creative personality (if there is one), the nature of creative work, the rigors of the creative life, or everyday human difficulties—or all four? What sorts of answer have been provided by the helping professions so far? Specifically, how does psychiatry frame and view these matters and what sort of special help, if any, does it provide? What might a better future for the mental health of artists look like?

This groundbreaking book tackles the unhelpful mythology surrounding the creative life (e.g., the myth of the suffering genius) and provides new perspectives and new answers of real value to the tens of millions of individuals who devote their lives to the arts.

Artists in Crisis is the seventh Volume of the Ethics International Press Critical Psychology and Critical Psychiatry Series.

Biography

Editor(s):  Dr. Eric Maisel, Ph.D., is a former family therapist, based in California, USA, who works actively as a creativity coach. He is the author of many books on creativity, psychology, and mental health. Arnoldo Cantú, LCSW is a clinical social worker and psychotherapist with experience in school social work, private practice, and currently working in community mental health seeing children, adolescents, families, and adults. Susan Raeburn, PhD. is a clinical psychologist, author, and musician who resides in Oakland, California. She has been in clinical practice since the late 80's (in private practice, at Stanford, and with Kaiser) with special expertise in working with musicians and other creatives

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