num_pages: 370
description: Kay Jamison's brilliant work, based on her lifelong studies as a clinical psychologist, reveals that many artists subject to exalted highs and despairing lows are, in fact, struggling with clinical manic-depression. Jamison applies what we now know about this illness to the lives of van Gogh, Byron, and others. National publicty.
language: English
title: Touched with Fire
titlecomplete: Touched with Fire
genres: Biography, Mental Illness, Science, History, Mental Health, Health, Psychiatry, Psychology, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 4975
publisher: Free Press