@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt5hhx14.9,
 ISBN = {9780813551579},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5hhx14.9},
 abstract = {Mania has been recognized by physicians from the first century to the twenty-first century as both general madness and a form of madness with unique qualities. But no medical account can describe adequately what those who suffer mania experience. No description of mania in textbooks or asylum reports, and certainly not in genetic studies, measures up to the detail of firsthand accounts. Those who experience bipolar illness who write about their experiences are quite aware that they are symptomatic. Mental illness narratives have appeared in unprecedented numbers in the last decade, many of them in the form of bipolar autobiography.},
 bookauthor = {LISA M. HERMSEN},
 booktitle = {Manic Minds: Mania's Mad History and Its Neuro-Future},
 pages = {81--97},
 publisher = {Rutgers University Press},
 title = {MANIC LIVES: MAD MEMOIRS},
 year = {2011}
}