6.30 pm Tuesday 17 May 2011
The City of Westminster Archives Centre
10 St. Ann’s Street, London SW1P 2DE – just off Parliament Square.

A New Understanding of the Blakes’ Spirit World and the Underlying Aim of William’s Creativity
A Lecture by John Diamond, M.D.

A leading authority in holistic medicine and the bond between the arts and health offers a challenging perspective of the unconscious, the underlying motive beneath all of Blake’s creativity, and clears the way for a new understanding of the Spirit World of both William and Catherine.

Dr John Diamond is a pioneering figure in alternative and holistic medicine, whose remarkable body of work embraces a wide range of disciplines, the result of fifty years of research and clinical practice, aiming at helping people overcome problems relating to body, mind and spirit.

He is a Fellow and past President of the International Academy of Preventive Medicine, a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry, and Foundation Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He’s also a bestselling author of over twenty books, including The Healing Power of Blake: A Distillation.

One of Dr. Diamond’s consuming interests is the relationship between health and the arts, which he regards as an essential and major component of healing. He is the Founder and Director of The Arts-Health Institute and The Institute for Life Energy and Creativity. He resides in New York.