Divine madness
Subtitle: ten stories of creative struggle
By: Jeffrey A. Kottler.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2005
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780787981495
Subjects: Mental illness -- Case studies; Mental illness -- Anecdotes; Genius and mental illness -- Anecdotes; Art and mental illness -- Anecdotes; Insanity -- Anecdotes
Genres: Case studies.; Anecdotes.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The nature of madness and creativity : myths and realities; title: Sylvia Plath: perfected in death; title: Judy Garland: under the rainbow; title: Mark Rothko: painted in blood; title: Ernest Hemingway: living up to his legend; title: Virginia Woolf: a great lake of melancholy; title: Charles Mingus: musical hallucinations; title: Vaslav Nijinsky: a method to his madness; title: Marilyn Monroe: killed by kindness; title: Lenny Bruce: sick and dirty comic; title: Brian Wilson: afraid of the water; title: Interpretations of meaning in the lives of creative geniuses.