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  title info:
    title: Touched with fire
    sub title: manic-depressive illness and the artistic temperament
  name:
    name part: Jamison, Kay R
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 1994
    edition: 1st Free Press paperback ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 370 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  abstract: "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 researcher in mood disorders, reveals that many artists who were subject to alternatingly exultant and then melancholic moods were, in fact, engaged in a lifelong struggle with manic-depressive illness." "Drawing on extraordinary recent advances in genetics, neuroscience, and psychopharmacology, Jamison presents the now incontrovertible proof of the biological foundations of this frequently misunderstood disease, and applies what is known about the illness, and its closely related temperaments, to the lives of some of the world's greatest artists - Byron, van Gogh, Shelley, Poe, Melville, Schumann, Coleridge, Virginia Woolf, Burns, and many others. Byron's life, discussed in considerable detail, is used as a particularly fascinating example of the complex interaction among heredity, mood, temperament, and poetic work." "Jamison reviews the substantial, rapidly accumulating, and remarkably consistent findings from biographic and scientific studies that demonstrate a markedly increased rate of severe mood disorders and suicide in artists, writers, and composers. She then discusses reasons why this link between mania, depression, and artistic creativity might exist." "Manic-depressive illness, a surprisingly common disease, is genetically transmitted. For the first time, the extensive family histories of psychiatric illness and suicide in many writers, artists, and composers are presented. In some instances - for example, Tennyson and Byron - these psychiatric pedigrees are traced back more than 150 years. Jamison discusses the complex ethical and cultural consequences of recent research in genetics, especially as they apply to manic-depressive illness, a disease that almost certainly confe…
  table of contents: That fine madness: introduction -- Endless nights, fierce fires and shramming cold: manic-depressive illness -- Could it be madness -- this?: controversy and evidence -- Their life a storm whereon they ride: temperament and imagination -- Mind's canker in its savage mood: George Gordon, Lord Byron -- Genealogies of these high mortal miseries: the inheritance of manic-depressive illness -- This net throwne upon the heavens: medicine and the arts -- Diagnostic criteria for the major mood disorders -- Writers, artists, and composers with probable cyclothymia, major depression, or manic-depressive illness.
  note: Kay Redfield Jamison.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Bipolar disorder
  subject:
    topic: Artists
    topic: Mental health
  subject:
    topic: Authors
    topic: Mental health
  subject:
    topic: Creative ability
  subject:
    topic: Genius and mental illness
  subject:
    topic: Art
  subject:
    topic: Authorship
  subject:
    topic: Arts
  subject:
    topic: Art
  subject:
    topic: Authorship
  subject:
    topic: Bipolar Disorder
  subject:
    topic: Creativity
  subject:
    topic: Troubles bipolaires
  subject:
    topic: Artistes
    topic: Santé mentale
  subject:
    topic: Écrivains
    topic: Santé mentale
  subject:
    topic: Créativité
  subject:
    topic: Génie et maladies mentales
  subject:
    topic: Art
  subject:
    topic: Art d'écrire
  subject:
    topic: Arts
  subject:
    topic: creativity
  subject:
    topic: fine arts (discipline)
  subject:
    topic: works of art
  subject:
    topic: authorship
  subject:
    topic: Authorship
  subject:
    topic: Art
  subject:
    topic: Artists
    topic: Mental health
  subject:
    topic: Authors
    topic: Mental health
  subject:
    topic: Creative ability
  subject:
    topic: Genius and mental illness
  subject:
    topic: Bipolar disorder
  subject:
    topic: Manic-depressive illness
  subject:
    topic: Artists
    topic: Mental health
  subject:
    topic: Authors
    topic: Mental health
  subject:
    topic: Creative ability
  subject:
    topic: Genius and mental illness
  classification: RC516 .J36 1994
  classification: 616.89/5/00887
  classification: WM 207 J32t 1996
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 960425
    record change date: 20240808153226.9
    record identifier: in00004815202
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng