Supplementary Material: Self-Disorders and Creativity in Visual Artists

The dataset contains supplementary material for a 2026 exploratory study of ten professional visual artists. It includes qualitative interview data assessing psychopathology, self-disorders, and anomalies of imagination. The findings explore potential links between altered self-experience and the creative process.

Use Cases

• Analyzing qualitative links between self-disorder symptoms and creative processes based on interview transcripts.
• Comparing phenomenological assessments (EASE, EAFI) with clinical diagnoses (ICD-10) in a non-clinical sample.
• Exploring the role of anomalous imagination in artistic work using qualitative interview data.

Strengths

• Data is derived from a specialized sample of ten professional visual artists exhibiting at prestigious galleries.
• Includes assessments from multiple standardized instruments (PSE, EASE, EAFI) and qualitative interviews.
• Available under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse and sharing.

Limitations

• The sample size is very small (n=10), limiting statistical power and generalizability.
• The dataset's specific columns and structure are not described in the provided metadata.
• The temporal coverage of the study data is not specified.

Provenance

Source

figshare admin karger

Collection Method

Ten visual artists were recruited through professional networks and underwent comprehensive interview assessments.

Freshness

Last updated on 2026-03-20.