Touched with fire : manic-depressive illness and the artistic temperament /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jamison, Kay R.
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Toronto : New York : Free Press ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International, ©1993.
Series:	Free Press paperback.
Subjects:	Bipolar disorder. Artists > Mental health. Authors > Mental health. Creative ability. Genius and mental illness. Art. Authorship. Bipolar Disorder Art Authorship Creativity Troubles bipolaires. Artistes > Santé mentale. Écrivains > Santé mentale. Créativité. Génie et maladies mentales. Art d'écrire. creativity. works of art. fine arts (discipline) authorship. PSYCHOLOGY > General. HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General. MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine. MEDICAL > Diseases. MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine. MEDICAL > Internal Medicine. Manic-depressive illness. Manisch-depressive Krankheit Künstler Bipolaire stoornis. Creativiteit. Electronic books.
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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.