Touched By Fire

[purpleponyart]

This is more of a note to self, but it seems like a promising book by Kay Redfield Jamison. I haven't read through it all the way, and I can't renew it, but she has some interesting ideas about mental illness and "artistic temperaments". She mainly looks at older authors and artists such as Vincent Van Gogh and Emily Dickenson who were plagued by "melancholia" and other non-DSM terms of the day. I think it would have been a better book if it looked at more modern artists and writers though. It's often hard to decode the language of the past, as romantic as it tends to be.