Kay Redfield Jamison's Touched With Fire: Manic Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temeprament

Jamison's flame of Ke Redfield: Articial satire of manic depression and flames touches: Manic depression and artistic temperament, Kearedfield Jamison is discussing the close relationship between mental disorders and artistic creativity I will. For a long time, artists have always been considered different from the general public, but I often hear that both writers, painters, and composers are struggling for "crazy". In Jamison's article I explore these stereotypes in a medical context and believe that irrational behavior of some artists is due to mental disorders, especially manic depressive disorder.

Almost 25 years ago, the book "Touched with Fire", a controversial book by psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison, showed an association between art and bipolar disorder. But she did not stop there. From Lord Byron to Edgar Allen Poe, Ernest Hemingway to Virginia Woolf, she will be famous for her name - this relationship is sacred and claimed to be inevitable to a certain extent. Artists can fight mental health, but this should not surprise us. Because these struggles are a very common part of everyone's life. Whatever we are, at least a quarter of people will experience psychosis at some point no matter what we are doing. Crazy artists become as common as crazy accountants and crazy electric technicians when figures are crushed. Perhaps Munk and others will afflict as much as our rest. But the prototype still exists

This book emphasizes the direct experience of her manic depression in a memoir of Kayredfield Jamison, a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Manic depression is being studied in everyday life because she is pursuing its educational background and psychological barrier. The events in this book clearly detail her explanation about happiness and pain, loneliness and fear, and the crazy climax and troughs she mentioned in her madness. This is a vivid record of the reality of her life with bipolar disorder and the struggle she encountered on the way.