#016 Psychotherapist on mental health, creativity, and whether geniuses are all mad: Denise Devenish

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Music Not Diving with Scuba

Scuba

202 episodes

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Paul Rose aka the musician, DJ, and label boss known as Scuba talks to people of significance from the world of electronic music about their experiences, observations, and attempts to cultivate a life for themselves in the murky and sometimes treacherous waters of the music industry.

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#016 Psychotherapist on mental health, creativity, and whether geniuses are all mad: Denise Devenish

Music Not Diving with Scuba

1 hour 16 minutes 18 seconds

4 months ago

#016 Psychotherapist on mental health, creativity, and whether geniuses are all mad: Denise Devenish

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Denise Devenish is a psychotherapist who specialises in treating musicians, offering a specialist service for those working in music and the creative industries.

She describes herself as having grown up "in a family steeped in the music business and having been surrounded by musicians and industry folk my whole life" and having "witnessed first hand the unique highs and lows that working in the industry entails."

So of course this is an interesting person to talk to!

We discuss the extent of the mental health crisis in the creative industries (as well as the wider economy), the differences in the younger generation and their attitudes to drug and alcohol, the "art comes from pain" and "genius requires madness" tropes, and the changes that digital music has brought to participants in the industry.

The book we refer to is Can Music Make You Sick? by Sally Anne Gross and George Musgrave (aka Context). A key input into that is Jodi Dean's Communucative Capitalism (2005), which I also recommend.

This a really interesting discussion of some pertinent issues!

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