Touched With Fire
by Jamison, Kay RedfieldEdition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1996-10-18
Publisher(s): Free Press
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Summary
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.
Author Biography
Kay Redfield Jamison is professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She lives in Washington, D.C.
Table of Contents
| That Fine Madness | p. 1 |
| Introduction | |
| Endless Night, Fierce Fires And Shramming Cold | p. 11 |
| Manic-Depressive Illness | |
| Could It be Madness--This? | p. 49 |
| Controversy and Evidence | |
| Their Life A Storm Whereon They Ride | p. 101 |
| Temperament and Imagination | |
| The Mind's Canker In Its Savage Mood | p. 149 |
| George Gordon, Lord Byron | |
| Genealogies of These High Mortal Miseries | p. 191 |
| The Inheritance of Manic-Depressive Illness | |
| This Net Throwne Upon The Heavens | p. 239 |
| Medicine and the Arts | |
| Appendixes | |
| Diagnostic Criteria for the Major Mood Disorders | p. 261 |
| Writers, Artists, and Composers with Probable Cyclothymia, Major Depression, or Manic-Depressive Illness | p. 267 |
| Notes | p. 271 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 355 |
| Index | p. 359 |
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