Art Therapy and the Creative Process

But there is more to it because the artist, or the amateur artist, is often able to confront life in all of its intricate, positive, and negative elements. The creator learns to understand life and looks at it with a critical mind. This effort further fuels his or her creativity as the individual learns to evaluate life independently from ideology and from the commonsensical way of doing and thinking. Mind you, it can be a difficult process to evaluate life critically, which may be why many artists often develop mental disorders, or, alternatively, they already had mental disorders, which helped them to gravitate towards the creative arts. I feel that real artists will always suffer with some mental disorders; it is part of the creative process.