About this title: From the recognized authority on manic-depressive illness, Kay Redfield Jamison, this study links the lives of celebrated artists such as Vincent van Gogh, Robert Schumann, and Lord Byron to the euphoric highs and crushing lows that are the textbook symptoms of manic-depression.
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: FREE PRESS., Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780684831831ISBN:068483183X
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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Free Pr
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780029160039ISBN:0029160030
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Very Good; Free Press Paperbacks/Simon & Schuster, New York
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780684831831ISBN:068483183X
Description: Reprint. 8vo 8"-9" tall 370 pages; From the author of the New York Times bestseller, An Unquiet Mind, Touched with Fire is an authoritative look at the relationship between manic-depressive illness and the artistic temperament. Psychiatrist Jamison advocates a restrained, humanistic approach to treatment that does not "cure" the disorder at the expense of artistic inspiration. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Free Press
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780684831831ISBN:068483183X
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Pages are a little tanned. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 384 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Free Press
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780684831831ISBN:068483183X
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Has a marker line on the bottom edge. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 384 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
"The other books by Kay Redfield Jamison that I have read have been fascinating and I also felt very accessible to the average reader interested in these topics. This book was obviously well researched but I thought the reading was dry. It felt like it may be geared to people working in psychology/psychiatry."
"This book explores the link between artistic creativity and mental illness (especially bipolar disorder) and supports every point with meticulous (and fascinating) research. Ego Boost!"
"In Touched with Fire, Kay Redfield Jamison combines clinical expertise about bipolar disorder with persuasive evidence of the numerous writers and artists who have suffered from that disorder.
Without romanticizing manic depressive illness, she does show the linkages between its severe highs and lows, and the creative productivity that can sometimes occur. In fact, she raises the moral question of whether the eradication of the illness would reduce the possibility of art and literature being produced by the likes of Lord Byron, Van Gogh, Robert Lowell and others.
If anything, Jamison's "case histories" of writers are so copious as to overwhelm the less casual reader--who, perhaps, is intimate with someone who has bipolar illness--and her assertion that the risk of suicide for those who are shuttling between manias and depression isn't comforting.
Still, Touched with Fire will be of interest to clinicians and general readers alike, or anyone who has had some experience with the fire and abyss of bipolar disorder."
"This book explains how those labelled mentally ill are many times the most brillant among us. A good read as we all could benefit by being more tolerant of those we don't understand."
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