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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