Touched With Fire

by Jamison, Kay Redfield

• ISBN13: 9780684831831
• ISBN10: 068483183X
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-10-18
• Publisher: Free Press

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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