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Content: The mental health consumer movement is effectively advocating the need to study and publicize positive aspects of mental illness, manic depression included. 3. Not only are there new and on-going studies, but the research that has been done to date has now been organized and interpreted so that lay people can understand it and get a good understanding of this complex issue in accessible, useful ways. Some excellent resources include: – As always, Goodwin’s and Jamison’s authoritative textbook, “Manic-depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression” offers a definitive guide in their Chapter 12 on Creativity and bipolar disorder, on pages 379-407. – A more detailed but accessible, plain language version of this is offered by Kay Redfield Jamison in Touched with Fire: manic-depressive illness and the artistic temperament. – A nice, quick, reliable overview is provided by the wonderful BP Magazine in their article, Bipolar and creativity – is there a link? What the research says . . .