List compiled by Kimberly Turner

Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament
by Kay Redfield Jamison

From Creation to Chaos: Classic Writings in Science
by Lewis Thomas

Edgar A. Poe: A Psychopathic Study
by John W. Robertson

Vincent van Gogh: The Complete Letters
(available online here)

Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression
by Frederick K. Goodwin and Kay Redfield Jamison
(Reviews of the efficacy of carbamazepine and valproate, pp. 712,713).

"Artistic Productivity and Lithium Prophylaxis in Manic-Depressive Illness"
British Journal of Psychiatry, 135 (1979): pp. 97-103

"Platelet-5-hydroxytryptamine Accumulation in Depressive Illness"
by A. Coppen, C. Swade and K. Wood
Clinica Chimica Acta 87 (1978)

"Creativity and mental Illness: prevalence rates in writers and their first-degree relatives"
by N.C. Andreasen
The American Journal of Psychiatry Vol. 144, No. 10 (1987)
(An abstract is available onlne here)

Creativity in Manic Depressives, Cyclothymes, Their Normal Relatives, and Control Subjects
by Ruth Richards et al.

Inheritance of Creative Intelligence
by Jon L. Karlsson

The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams
by Donald Spoto

Tennessee Williams, Five O'Clock Angel: Letters of Tennessee Williams to Maria St. Just
Preface by Elia Kazan

The Curse of the Misbegotten: A Tale of the House of O'Neill
by Croswell Bowen and Shane O'Neill

The Strange Life of August Strindberg
by Elizabeth Sprigge

Any books by Anne Sexton

Dream Song: The Life of John Berryman
by Paul Mariani

Van Gogh: His Life and His Art
by David Sweetman

"The hunger of imagination: approaching Samuel Johnson's melancholy"
by R. Porter, in
The Anatomy of Madness vol. 1
edited by W. F. Bynum, R. Porter and M. Shepherd

The Journals of Mary Shelley
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Thackery's Universe: Shifting Worlds of Imagination and Reality
by Catherine Peters

The Flight of the Mind: Virginia Woolf's Art and Manic-Depressive Illness
by Thomas Caramagno

The Insanity of Genius
by J. F. Nisbet

An Anatomy of Inspiration
by Rosamond Harding

Do some research on--
porphyria: a genetic disease characterized by gastrointestinal, neurological and psychiatric symptoms.

Circadian Rhythms in Psychiatry
by Thomas A. Wehr

The Emerging Goddess: Creative Process in Art, Science and Other Fields
by Albert Rothenberg

The Act of Creation
by Arthur Koestler

The Dynamics of Creation
by Anthony Storr

"Traits of Creativity"
by J. P. Guilford
Creativity and Its Cultivation
edited by H. H. Anderson, pp. 142-61
(A summary can be found here)

Creative Person and Creative Process
by Frank Barron

The Romantic Imagination
by Cecil M. Bowra

Experimental Studies in Psychiatric Art
by E. C. Dax

Psychotic Art
by Francis Reitman

Fiery Dust: Byron's Poetic Development
by Jerome J. McGann

Journal of Creative Behavior
available online here

The Myth of Right Hemisphere Creativity
by Terence Hines
(available online here)

The Road to Xanadu: A Study in the Ways of the Imagination
by John Livingston Lowes

Creativity Research Journal
(available online here)

Women, Family and Utopia: Communal Experiments of the Shakers, the Oneida Community and the Mormons
by Lawrence Foster

"Creative intelligence in relatives of mental patients"
by Jon L. Karlsson
Hereditas Vol. 100, Issue 1, pp. 83-86
(available online here)

Do some research on--
cyclothymic disorder: a type of chronic mood disorder