Touched with fire : manic-depressive illness and the artistic temperament / Kay Redfield Jamison.
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TextPublication details: New York ; London : Free, [1996]Description: xii, 370p. : ill., facsim., geneal. tables, port. ; 22 cmISBN: - 9780684831831 (pbk.) :
- 068483183X (pbk)
- 616.89500887 JAM
- 616.89500887 21
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Originally published: 1994.
Originally published: 1993.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. That fine madness-- 2. Endless night, fierce fires and shramming cold: manic depressive illness-- 3. Could it be madness-this? Controversy and evidence--4. Their life a storm whereon they ride: temperament and imagination-- 5. The mind\'s canker in its savage mood--6.Genealogies of these high mortal miseries: The Inheritance of manic-depressive illness --7. This net throwne upon the heavens: medicine and the arts.
Kay Jamison presents compelling evidence that many of the great artists who experienced massive mood swings were in actual fact sufferers of manic depressive illnesses.