Affective disorder and the writing life : the melancholic muse /

How does affective madness influence the social understanding of writers and other artists, or shape the creative act itself? In a fifteen-year longitudinal study at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, a study little known outside of psychiatry, eighty per cent of the writers reported either living wit...

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Other Authors:	Stone Horton, Stephanie (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Series:	Palgrave pivot.
Subjects:	Affective disorders. Authors > Mental health. Authors > Psychology.