Touched with Fire (book)

Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament is a book by the American psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison examining the relationship between bipolar disorder and artistic creativity. It contains extensive case studies of historic writers, artists, and composers assessed as probably having had cyclothymia, major depressive disorder, or manic-depressive/bipolar disorder.Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament:1996 page 267

Reception The book has widely been very favourably received. Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament The definitive work on the profound and surprising links between manic-depression and creativity www.goodreads.com, accessed 28 May 2021Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament 26 May 2020 lothianbipolargroup.org.uk, accessed 28 May 2021 It has been the basis for scholarship on the topic of the relationship between bipolar disorder and 'artistic temperament'.

Cultural references The film of the same name, directed and written by Paul Dalio (who is bipolar), 'draws from' the book and the book is a significant feature in its plot.'Touched With Fire,' inspired by work of Johns Hopkins psychologist, explores life with bipolar disorder Dec 16, 2015, hub.jhu.edu, accessed 28 May 2021

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References Jamison, Kay Redfield (1993): Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament, New York, The Free Press.

See also Creativity and bipolar disorder Creativity and mental illness