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Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament is a book by the American psychologist Kay Jamison Redfield examining the relationship betweenbipolar disorder and artistic creativity . It contains extensive case studies of historic writers, artists, and composers assessed as having suffered from Cyclothymia , Major Depressive Disorder , or Manic-Depressive / Bipolar Disorder . [1]
Prize
The book received the Lewis Thomas Prize June 5, 2013. [2]
See also
- Creativity and bipolar disorder
Notes
- Jump up^ Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament: 1996 page 267
- Jump up^ Lewis Thomas Prize awarded to Redfield Kay JamieRockefeller.edu, visited October 27, 2013
References
- Jamison, Kay Redfield (1993): Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament, New York, The Free Press. ISBN 0-02-916030-8