Touched with Fire (book)

For the 2015 film, see Touched with Fire (film).

Touched with Fire

Author	Kay Redfield Jamison
Language	English
Subject	Creativity and bipolar disorder
Publisher	Free Press
ISBN	978-0-684-83183-1
OCLC	85753373

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.[1][2]

Reception

The book has widely been very favourably received.[3][4] It has been the basis for scholarship on the topic of the relationship between bipolar disorder and 'artistic temperament'.[5][6]

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.[7]

See also

• Creativity and bipolar disorder

Notes

1. Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament:1996 page 267
2. "Review of Touched With Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament". The Wilson Quarterly. 17 (3): 93–94. 1993. ISSN 0363-3276. JSTOR 40258742.
3. 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 2021
4. Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament 26 May 2020 lothianbipolargroup.org.uk, accessed 28 May 2021
5. Zaman, R.; Agius, M.; Hankir, A. (March 2011). "Manic-depressive illness and the artistic temperament". European Psychiatry. 26 (S2): 261. doi:10.1016/S0924-9338(11)71971-X. S2CID 145805518.
6. Hankir, A (September 2011). "Review: bipolar disorder and poetic genius". Psychiatria Danubina. 23 Suppl 1: S62-8. PMID 21894105.
7. '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

References

• Jamison, Kay Redfield (1993): Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament, New York, The Free Press. ISBN 0-02-916030-8