TOUCHED WITH FIRE
Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament
Kay Redfield Jamison
Free Press Paperbacks, 1993
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Readers of this book will learn the relations between affective disorders, particularly manic-depressive illness, and creativity.
This book describes the high prevalence of the bipolar form of manic-depressive illness among writers and artists. Although the artistic temperament is commonly seen as 'crazy,' or eccentric, and other scholars have interpreted this as schizophrenia, Kay Redfield Jamison makes a strong case that many prominent poets, composers, and painters have suffered from an alternation of depressive and manic states.
Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is a member of the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research. She has written a best-selling memoir, AN UNQUIET MIND, and co-written the medical text MANIC-DEPRESSIVE ILLNESS.
9 CE credits; 370 pages (270 text)
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