Psychiatria Danubina, Vol. 27 No. 3, 2015.
Conference paper
CREATIVITY IN PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY - THE BRIGHT SIDE OF FACE OF PSYCHIATRIC GOD JANUS
Aleksandar Damjanović
; School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Clinic for Psychiatry, Clinical Centre of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia
Abstract
This paper discusses about challenges to psychopharmacotherapy, evidence–based psychopharmacology, creative psychopharmacology,
creativity and dopamine, creative-rational polypharmacy as a paradigm for creativity in psychopharmacotherapy,
and about polypharmacy classification as a good, bad and ugly
By stimulating the patient to participate in the creative and artistic process we effect on his optimal identification with the role of
the sick person. Through creation, imagination and visualization patients can recognize their own reservoir of inner healing and
create a healthier new identity. Psychopharmacotherapy can prevent the deterioration of creativity affecting the quality of life and
personal recovery. It may also affect the goals and aspirations of patients as well as the way in forming strategies of their
realization.
Keywords
pharmacotherapy – polypharmacy – creativity - dopamine
Hrčak ID:
162488
URI
Publication date:
23.9.2015.
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