title: Creativity in psychopharmacotherapy - the bright side of face of psychiatric god Janus.
abstract: This paper discusses about challenges to psychopharmacotherapy, evidence-based psychopharmacology, creative psychopharmacology, creativity and dopamine, creative-rational polypharmacy as a paradigm for creativity in psychopharmacotherapy, and about polypharmacy classification as a good, bad and ugly By stimulating the patient to participate in the creative and artistic process we effect on his optimal identification with the role of the sick person. Through creation, imagination and visualization patients can recognize their own reservoir of inner healing and create a healthier new identity. Psychopharmacotherapy can prevent the deterioration of creativity affecting the quality of life and personal recovery. It may also affect the goals and aspirations of patients as well as the way in forming strategies of their realization.
authors.affiliation: Clinic for Psychiatry, Clinical Center of Serbia, University of Belgrade, Pasterova 2, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia, damal64@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Aleksandar
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Damjanović
mesh_terms: D001154:Art; D003405:Creativity; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D019338:Polypharmacy; D011600:Psychopharmacology / Q000592:standards*; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*