Touched with Fire (book)
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Author | Kay Redfield Jamison |
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Language | English |
Subject | Creativity and bipolar disorder |
Publisher | Free Press |
ISBN | 978-0-684-83183-1 |
OCLC | 85753373 |
Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament is a book by the American psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison examining the relationship between bipolar disorder and artistic creativity. It contains extensive case studies of historic writers, artists, and composers assessed as probably having had cyclothymia, major depressive disorder, or manic-depressive/bipolar disorder.[1]
See also
Notes
- ^ Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament:1996 page 267
References
- Jamison, Kay Redfield (1993): Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament, New York, The Free Press. ISBN 0-02-916030-8