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Touched With Fire

Paperback • 1996 • English

Touched With Fire

By Kay Redfield Jamison

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About the book

The definitive work on the profound and surprising links between manic-depression and creativity, from the bestselling psychologist of bipolar disorders who wrote An Unquiet Mind. One of the foremost psychologists in America, “Kay Jamison is plainly among the few who have a profound understanding of the relationship that exists between art and madness” (William Styron). The anguished and volatile intensity associated with the artistic temperament was once thought to be a symptom of genius or ...Show more

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ISBN

9780684831831

Publisher

Free Press

Published year

1996

Language

English

Original title

Touched With Fire

Format

Paperback

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