TOUCHED WITH FIRE
Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament
Kay Redfield Jamison
Free Press Paperbacks, 1993
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
• Learn the relations between affective disorders, particularly manic-depressive illness, and creativity
• Recognize the high prevalence of the bipolar form of manic-depressive illness among writers and artists
• Know the mortality rate associated with manic-depressive illness
• Learn the two key aspects of cognition in common between creativity and hypomania
• Learn about the frequency of manic depressive illness in twins based on studies
• Learn how lithium therapy affects artists’ productivity
Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is a member of the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research. She has written a best-selling memoir, AN UNQUIET MIND, and co-written the medical text MANIC-DEPRESSIVE ILLNESS.
9 CE credits; 370 pages (270 text)
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