Inside van Gogh's mind
July 29, 2012 12:33 PM
Biographer Steven Naifeh explains temporal lobe epilepsy, the "terrifying illness" he says plagued Van Gogh and made it hard for the artist to form lasting friendships.
The Life and Death of Vincent van Gogh
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- Again, We have an obsessive delving into history when no one has the correct line on what happened. I had childhood temporal lobe epilepsy and the seizures that went with it "psycho-motor" many famous artists of differing kinds had them. It is only a hand full or more that have shared history Vincent was one of them an I believe Antoine Wateau was before him. By the way both Van Gogh and Anthony Pallen Fowler read books on the enlightening of the previous artist. I was give a glimpse into the future as history has been repeating itself.
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- I was pretty disheartened by this Pullitzer prize winning author (?!) who is comparing and grouping epilepsy (specifically temporal lobe epilepsy) in with mental illness. This kind of widely spread misinformation (we are talking about national television here...)is completely false and quite frankly hurtful to those who have temporal lobe epilepsy, including myself. Epilepsy is a neurological disease, not mental...can we air a *truly* well-researched story on that with FACTS?
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