The illness of Vincent van Gogh.
@article{Blumer2002TheIO, title={The illness of Vincent van Gogh.}, author={Dietrich P. Blumer}, journal={The American journal of psychiatry}, year={2002}, volume={159 4}, pages={ 519-26 } }
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) had an eccentric personality and unstable moods, suffered from recurrent psychotic episodes during the last 2 years of his extraordinary life, and committed suicide at the age of 37. Despite limited evidence, well over 150 physicians have ventured a perplexing variety of diagnoses of his illness. Henri Gastaut, in a study of the artist's life and medical history published in 1956, identified van Gogh's major illness during the last 2 years of his life as temporal…
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