Arts & Humanities in Psychiatry Committee
The Committee focuses on the intersection between psychiatry and the arts and humanities.
ABOUT OUR COMMITTEE
The arts and humanities open a window to the human experience. Creative endeavors, such as music, drama, visual arts, and the broader humanities, such as philosophy and history, are often overlooked in fostering well-being and as tools in mental health practice. We educate mental health practitioners and the public about psychiatric history and raise awareness of creative approaches in psychiatry. Our committee members are amateur or professional musicians, writers, and artists. We are psychiatrists interested in maintaining focus on the value of the humanities in a field that is increasingly pulled in a biomedical direction.
For more information and to view all of our committee projects, including videos on the history of psychiatry and other publications, please click here: www.artsgap.org
from the Arts and Humanities in Psychiatry Committee
What Ever Happened to Nostalgia (the Diagnosis)?
Assassins in London and Washington Force Changes in the Insanity Defense
OUR VIDEOS
History of Psychiatry Video Series
Teaching video series
UNC-CH and Chapel Hill actors portray the story of Dr. Berger, a psychoanalyst modeled after Sigmund Freud, providing psychotherapeutic treatment for the famous Gretel from the Grimm fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel."
Current committee members (clockwise from top left): Donald Fidler, MD; Christopher Snowdy, MD; Andrew Lustbader, MD; Kenneth Weiss, MD (committee chair) ; Anish Dube, MD, MPH (committee chair) ; David Sasso, MD, MPH
Current members not pictured: Fernando Espí Forcén, MD, PhD; Helena Winston, MD, MPhil, MS
Current GAP fellow 2021-2022: Christopher Magoon, MD
Contributing members: John Cahill, MD, PhD; Alan Gruenberg, MD; John Tamerin, MD
Former members: Josephy Carmody, MD; Allan Peterkin, MD; Anna Skorzewska, MD; Alexander Westphal, MD, PhD
Former GAP fellows: Aparna Atluru, MD, MBA; Adam Stern MD; Helena Winston, MD, MPhil, MS (current member)