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By Kay Redfield Jamison. 370 pp. New York, Free Press, 1993. $24.95. ISBN 0-02-916030-8.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied,

And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

-- John Dryden

Medicine has a long tradition of taking an interest in the ailments of the historically notable, in part to enrich its teaching with relevant and memory-enhancing case examples, but also to see how medical conditions may have affected the lives of those who shaped our culture or history. Psychiatrists have been particularly interested in psychoanalytically oriented biographies of the well known, trying to establish what developmental forces impelled or shaped the adult trajectories of the subjects. Such biographies, while intellectually stimulating, have . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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