ACTIVITY:

                 Van Gogh's Psychoanalysis
SUBJECT AREAS:

                  Psychology, Art and History
YOUR INVESTIGATION:
You are a world reknown psychiatrist of some of the famous people in the world.

You are asked by Vicent Van Gogh's brother to help Vincent to go out of his depression.

You accept to psychoanalyse him but for first you decide to study his works of art.

First: Select five of his paintings and make an analysis of his probable personality. Say how the paintings can help a psychiatrist to get to know many things about person's personality.

Second: Read a short biography of your patient and decide on the kind of therapy or treatment that you will use.

Then ask your patient Vincent Van Gogh to have his first interview

Third: Write a letter to Vincent Van Gogh's brother telling him your diagnosis and the suggestIons you will ask him to follow in order to help curing his brother.
QUESTIONS TO GUIDE YOU:
1.- What pictures would you select and why?
2.- What aspects of his life would you pay more attention to? And why?
3.- What kind of questions would you ask him the first time?
4.- What aspects or habits of his life would you ask him to begin changing?
5.- What kind of help would you give him and would ask his brother to give him, and why?
SITE TO SEARCH:

                                       
www.vangoghreproductions.com
Created by: Mei Mei Chu Pulido

                     
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