Touched With Fire

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Free Press Paperbacks
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 1994
Edition: Reprint

Description: 370 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. Manic-Depressive Illness And The Artistic Temperament.

Publishers Description: The anguished and volatile intensity associated with the artistic temperament was once thought to be a symptom of genius or eccentricity peculiar to artists, writers and musicians. Kay Jamisons work, based on her study as a clinical psychologist and researcher in mood disorders, reveals that many artists subject to exalted highs and despairing lows were in fact engaged in a struggle with clinically identifiable manic-depressive illness. Jamison presents proof of the biological foundations of this disease and applies what is known about the illness to the lives and works of some of the worlds greatest artists including Byron, Van Gogh, Schumann and Woolf.

ISBN: 9780684831831