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When creativity becomes a target of therapeutic scrutiny

My therapist says I use art to avoid dealing with my problems but making art is the only time I feel like myself

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The medicalization of creative impulses can pathologize the very activity that provides meaning and identity to the artist.

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