Touched with fire : manic-depressive illness and the artistic temperament / Kay Redfield Jamison.
The anguished, volatile intensity we associate with the artistic temperament, often described as "a fine madness," has been thought of as a defining aspect of much artistic genius. Now, Kay Jamison's brilliant work, based on years of studies as a clinical psychologist and prominent re...
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New York : Toronto : New York :
Free Press ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International,
[1993]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. That Fine Madness: Introduction
- 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: George Gordon, Lord Byron
- 6. Genealogies of These High Mortal Miseries: The Inheritance of Manic-Depressive Illness
- 7. This Net Throwne Upon the Heavens: Medicine and the Arts
- App. A. Diagnostic Criteria for the Major Mood Disorders
- App. B. Writers, Artists, and Composers with Probable Cyclothymia, Major Depression, or Manic-Depressive Illness
- 1. That Fine Madness: Introduction
- 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: George Gordon, Lord Byron
- 6. Genealogies of These High Mortal Miseries: The Inheritance of Manic-Depressive Illness
- 7. This Net Throwne Upon the Heavens: Medicine and the Arts
- App. A. Diagnostic Criteria for the Major Mood Disorders
- App. B. Writers, Artists, and Composers with Probable Cyclothymia, Major Depression, or Manic-Depressive Illness
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index.