title: "A Fire in the Blood": metaphors of bipolar disorder in Jamison's An Unquiet Mind.
abstract: Content analysis of three chapters of Jamison's memoir, An Unquiet Mind, shows that depression, mania, and Bipolar Disorder have a common metaphoric core as a sequential process of suffering and adversity that is a form of malevolence and destruction. Depression was down and in, while mania was up, in and distant, circular and zigzag, a powerful force of quickness and motion, fieriness,                         strangeness, seduction, expansive extravagance, and acuity. Bipolar Disorder is down and away and a sequential and cyclical process that partakes of the metaphors of its component moods. We conclude that metaphors of mood disorders share a number of structural features and are consistent across different authors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Lewis & Clark College, 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road, Portland, OR 97219, USA. schoen@lclark.edu
authors.forename: Thomas J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Schoeneman
authors.forename: Janel
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Putnam
authors.forename: Ian
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Rasmussen
authors.forename: Nina
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sparr
authors.forename: Stephanie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Beechem
mesh_terms: D001680:Biographies as Topic; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D001877:Books; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008512:Medicine in the Arts; D019365:Metaphor; D019964:Mood Disorders; D011613:Psychotherapy; D036301:Qualitative Research; D014956:Writing