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Category: creative responses to depression

A Black At Once Revelatory and Mundane: Depression, Night and Mystery

May 17, 2026 forrestwolfe

I spoke at the Psychiatrie and Filosofie conference “Too Mad To Be True” in Ghent, Belgium on May 14, on…

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Posted in: black virgin, creative responses to depression, madness, psychiatry and faith, speaker series

from Pablo Neruda, Stones of the Sky

July 18, 2020 forrestwolfe

In depression, Pablo Neruda writes from outside of himself, and definitely outside of his personality. He writes from the stones…

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depression has borne me gifts

February 15, 2020 forrestwolfe

Depression has borne me gifts. Pain is a patch of color. And when color slides off of things, then the…

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patterns on a shore: psychoanalysis and faith

August 24, 2018 forrestwolfe

Julia Kristeva was a noted French-Bulgarian psychoanalyst who treated many women for depression, and who also advocated for the disabled,…

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