Touched With Fire

Book cover of Touched With Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament

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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 Jamison's work, based on her study as a clinical psychologist and researcher in mood disorders, reveals that many artists subject to exalted…

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1 author picked Touched With Fire as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Elias Aboujaoude

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This book parlays the author’s personal experience with bipolar disorder and mental illness and her experience as a clinician treating these conditions to describe the sometimes clinical roots of genius.

How "artistic temperament," as expressed in literature, music, and the visual arts, differs from the euphoric highs and desperate lows of full-blown psychiatric conditions is the very worthwhile question she passionately tries to answer with and for us.

From Elias' list on the psychological quest for meaning.