17 Provocative Drawings By Patients With Schizophrenia

By Editorial Staff in Bizarre On 28th January 2015
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#1 "Electricity Makes You Float" by Karen Blair, a woman living with schizophrenia.

#2 Notice the variety of moods, the cyst-like creatures growing out of this man's head, representative of the confusion schizophrenia can sometimes bring.

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#3 These two photos were done by an unknown schizophrenic artist trying to capture the abstract nightmare of his thoughts.

#4 This does look like a nightmare.

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#5 This insanely intricate drawing was done by Edmund Monsiel, an artist in the early 1900's believed to have been a schizophrenic.

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#6 This drawing was found in an old asylum, its artist was a paranoid schizophrenic.

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#7 A nefarious depiction of the affliction by Erik Baumann.

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#8 In 1950, Charles Steffen began compulsively making art like this on wrapping paper from inside a mental hospital. His obsession with transformation is very clear.

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#9 This artist suffers from a rare case of paranoid schizophrenia that causes him to have visual hallucinations. One of these visions is a figure named "Wither," shown below.

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#10 Spooky, strange, but probably an accurate portrayal of schizophrenia feels like on the inside.

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#11 This piece, entitled "Motifs of Mania," depicts schizophrenia as a shadowy menace.

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# Karen May Sorensen recently began pushing the boundaries of her "madness," by posting drawings and paintings on her blog while on varying levels of medication.

#13 A series of paintings of cats by Louis Wain from the early 1900's. They capture a slow descent into varying levels of schizophrenic episodes.

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#14 Another by Draak. Notice the two headed subjects in both pieces.

#15 This piece captures the auditory hallucinations associated with the disease.

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#16 This schizophrenic artist feels trapped by it all.

#17 Johfra Draak drew this in 1967, depicting a schizophrenic Dante's Inferno.