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Title: TOUCHED WITH FIRE: Manic Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament by Kay Redfield Jamison ISBN: 0-684-83183-X Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 18 October, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3.92 (38 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: Way off.
Comment: Jamison's opinion of Herman Melville is way off. Melville has been appropriated to most every taste, and need. Difficult to accept that given his achievement, he was surprisingly 'normal.' Wagneknecht had it right, in reading Melville, one must distinguish between biography and autobiography of the reviewer.

Rating: 2
Summary: Informative but boring
Comment: This is a very informative book but unless you have a great obessive passion for this topic you will find this book very hard to finish. The author's other title 'Unquiet Mind' was not at all like this read. This book reads like a textbook, a long winded textbook. Not bad over all, but unless you need a nap, avoid this book when tired. Doctor's will thrive on the endless information of the brain's workings as it relates to manic-depressive illness.

Rating: 2
Summary: Don't read this if you are dealing with a Bipolar diagnosis!
Comment: As a visual artist having recently been diagnosed bipolar, it seemed only logical to read this book. I had hoped it would encourage me to stick with treatment. I was scared that medication would dull and disable me. I looked to this book for encouragement and hope. Unfortunately, it seemed to reinforce the notion that Lithium and other treatments snatch creativity from the artist suffering with manic depression. She romanticizes the pain of depression and highs of mania experienced by writers and artists of yore by pointing to the wonderful work they produced (while ill). Then she waxes poetic about the degeneration of the artists who committed suicide or died in institutions. I actually felt my heels dig in about seeking and follwing through with treatment for fear that my "fire" would be put out. I really wish she would have dwelled more on current artists and their experiences with current treatments, including their positive or negative feelings about medication and its effects on their creative process.

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