Kay Redfield Jamison, PH.D.
Kay Redfield Jamison is Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine as well as Honorary Professor of English at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. She is the author of the national best sellers "An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness," "Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide, "and" Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament. "She is coauthor of the standard medical text on manic-depressive illness and author or...See more
Kay Redfield Jamison is Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine as well as Honorary Professor of English at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. She is the author of the national best sellers "An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness," "Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide, "and" Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament. "She is coauthor of the standard medical text on manic-depressive illness and author or coauthor of more than one hundred scientific papers about mood disorders, creativity, and psychopharmacology. Dr. Jamison, the recipient of numerous national and international scientific awards, was distinguished lecturer at Harvard University in 2002 and the Litchfield lecturer at the University of Oxford in 2003. She is a John P. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellow. "From the Hardcover edition." See less
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Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament
Interesting but too reductionist...
by Clermont, Apr 28, 2011
Kay Jamison'd thesis is an interesting one, especially to a writer and poet like myself who is diagnosed with a form of 'rapid cycling bipolar disorder.'
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Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament
Very helpfull
by Esmar, Jan 13, 2011
It was very interested to read the book. A good help for me. I recommend this to all with BP, at least Read More
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Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament
The Fire and Abyss
In Touched with Fire, Kay Redfield Jamison combines clinical expertise about bipolar disorder with persuasive evidence of the numerous writers and artists who have suffered from that disorder.
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