Thoughts on Touched with Fire by Kay Redfield Jamison ?

Thoughts on Touched with Fire by Kay Redfield Jamison ?

Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament is a book by the American psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison examining the relationship between bipolar disorder and artistic creativity. It contains extensive case studies of historic writers, artists, and composers assessed as probably having suffered with Cyclothymia, Major Depressive Disorder, or Manic-Depressive/Bipolar Disorder

The book received the Lewis Thomas Prize

>The Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science, named for its first recipient, Lewis Thomas, is an annual literary prize

>scientists deemed to have accomplished a significant literary achievement: it "recognizes scientists as poets".

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Touched with Fire stars Katie Homes and Luke Kirby as two poets with bipolar disorder whose art is fueled by their emotional extremes. When they meet in a treatment facility, their chemistry is instant and intense driving each other's mania to new heights

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Plato, in his dialogue Phaedrus (sections 246a–254e)...

...to explain his view of the human soul. He does this in the dialogue through the character of Socrates, who uses it in a discussion of the merit of Love as "divine madness"

>new heights

Ever Upward

Your love will take me higher and higher

>Ever Upward

On this solstice, the sun takes its most northerly path across the sky for the year. It’s the year’s highest sun

The summer solstice comes on June 20, 2016 at 22:34 UTC

...when it comes to the love energy, the Summer Solstice is the day, when your wish for love is manifested

...energy that is powerful for love...

Embrace what you love...

A child to rise from our fiery seeds

that burned across our bloodlines
for lifetimes, to finally meet.

>Can your love language follow songlines to heartlines ?

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And find a face for the first time

in the reflection between our locked eyes

And in their vision,

in a sudden flash of recognition

of our place in the Grand Design,

our child will be let
into the gates of creation.

Don't shill your shitty book here. The mad genius trope is a meme.

Reported.

Touched with both our fires,
to burn twice as high as you and I

Summer Solstice is the perfect time for the energy to connect you with your soulmate or twinflame...

let's give our baby this book

know the beauty in it

>follow songlines

Do you know the sound

We awoke from our sleep

and left our sanity beside our bed

peeled off those sedative sheets

released our eyelids' grip
on their protective lens

and let the whole miracle in

past the shattering glass

We of the craft are all crazy

all are more or less touched

I know the song of your heart

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You know who said that?
Lord Byron

It's in the opening to this book,
Touched with Fire

she, out of nowhere,
had this manic episode

So she tried to keep it a secret

She decided to write books about it

Instead of being ashamed of it,
she made it a gift

when the world turns to magic at night...

they'll know...

the music

...Come on, I want to hear yours...

anything that's easy I will just overdo it