Touched with Fire (book)

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Touched with Fire
AuthorKay Redfield Jamison
LanguageEnglish
SubjectCreativity and bipolar disorder
PublisherFree Press
ISBN978-0-684-83183-1
OCLC85753373

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

  1. ^ 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