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The Flight of the Mind

Virginia Woolf's Art and Manic-Depressive Illness

The Flight of the Mind( )
Author: Caramagno, Thomas C.
Afterword by: Jamison, Kay Redfield
ISBN:978-0-520-07280-0
Publication Date:Jul 1992
Publisher:University of California Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $63.00
Book Description:

In this major new book on Virginia Woolf, Caramagno contends psychobiography has much to gain from a closer engagement with science. Literary studies of Woolf's life have been written almost exclusively from a psychoanalytic perspective. They portray Woolf as a victim of the Freudian "family romance," reducing her art to a neurotic evasion of a traumatic childhood. But current knowledge about manic-depressive illness_its genetic transmission, its biochemistry, and its...
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Book Details
Pages:362
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Psychology / Psychopathology / Bipolar Disorder
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6 x 9 x 1.3 Inches
Book Weight:1.8 Pounds
Author Biography
Caramagno, Thomas C. (Author)
Clinical psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison was born on June 22, 1946. She received a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is considered one of the foremost experts on bipolar disorder, which she has had since her early adulthood. She is Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a Honorary Professor of English at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. She is the author of numerous books including An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness; Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide; and Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament.

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