Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament

Touched with Fire

Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament

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Kay Redfield Jamison
Kay Redfield Jamison
1993 • 386 pages

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A survey of psychological problems associated with writers. It examines the diagnosis, survival and treatment protocols typically associated with bipolar/ manic depression in writers. Interesting, hopeful and moving.

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