Touched with Fire

Touched with Fire
Author Kay Redfield Jamison
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]

Prize

The book received the Lewis Thomas Prize June 5, 2013.[2]

See also

Notes

  1. Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament:1996 page 267
  2. Lewis Thomas Prize awarded to Kay Redfield Jamison Archived 2013-10-29 at the Wayback Machine. Rockefeller.edu, visited October 27, 2013

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


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