
Touched With Fire
Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament
Kay Redfield Jamison(Author)
The Free Press
Published on 3. December 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-0-684-83183-1 (ISBN)
Description
The anguished and volatile intensity associated with the artistic temperament was once thought to be a symptom of genius or eccentricity peculiar to artists, writers and musicians. Kay Jamison's work, based on her study as a clinical psychologist and researcher in mood disorders, reveals that many artists subject to exalted highs and despairing lows were in fact engaged in a struggle with clinically identifiable manic-depressive illness. Jamison presents proof of the biological foundations of this disease and applies what is known about the illness to the lives and works of some of the world's greatest artists including Byron, Van Gogh, Schumann and Woolf.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Simon & Schuster
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
ill.
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
350 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-684-83183-1 (9780684831831)
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10/1996
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10/1994
Simon and Schuster
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Person
Kay Redfield Jamison, PhD, is the bestselling author of An Unquiet Mind, Touched with Fire, and other books. She is a professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and has been named a "Hero of Medicine" by Time.