Touched With Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament Bloomsbury Natural History Regius Professor of Modern History

Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford

The book is a commentary on the way anthropologists working within the western tradition have projected their own ideas on to the thought systems of other peoples

There are mind-readers

and Donna Marie Nudd

Touched With Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament Bloomsbury Natural History Regius Professor of Modern HistoryThe 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. The anguished and volatile intensity associated with the artistic temperament was once thought to be