Barry Panter, MD, PhD

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Founder and Director of The American Institute of Medical Education

Fellow American Psychiatric Association

Diplomate American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, USC Medical School

Training and Supervising Analyst SC Psychoanalytic Association and

Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis Los Angeles

Co-Editor and Co-Author: Creativity and Madness: Psychoanalytic Studies of Art and Artists

Volumes 1 and 2 and 33 Poems for Mary Lou

Presentation Description

The presentation will discuss some artists who have suffered loss or damage to one of their senses that is usually required for their creativity, e.g.

Beethoven's deafness, and how the artists coped with their devastating losses.

A few lines from Alfred Lord Tennyson's Ulysses:

Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'

We are not now that strength which in old days

Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;

One equal temper of heroic hearts,

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.