Touched with Fire
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| Touched with Fire | |
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| Author | Kay Redfield Jamison |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Creativity and bipolar disorder |
| Publisher | Free Press |
| ISBN | 0-684-83183-X 9780684831831 0029160030 9780029160039 |
| OCLC | 85753373 |
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.[1]
Prize
This book got the Lewis Thomas Prize June 5, 2013.[2]
See also
- Creativity and bipolar disorder
Quotes
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." [3]
Notes
- ↑ Review at Google Books
- ↑ Lewis Thomas Prize awarded to Kay Redfield Jamison Rockefeller.edu, visited October 27, 2013
- ↑ The Unofficial Leo Kottke Website
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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