Touched with Fire

Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament is a book by the American psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison that examines the relationship between bipolar disorder and artistic creativity. It contains a number of case histories of dead people who are described as probably having suffered from bipolar disorder.

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In a concert years ago in Saint Paul, Minnesota, the musical artist Leo Kottke remarked that his review of this book would be "When you're manic, you create. When depressed, you edit."

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