Cyclothymia was sometimes described as a disorder "emotional", a personality disorder. Homosexuality was considered a pathology (the "sexual invert") then it is no longer so today. I think I have shown in my book that some environments such as the arts enhance the expression of Cyclothymic temperament. My question is: where is the pathology?.
Jamison wrote in Touch With Fire (p.5): "A Common Assumption, for instance, Is That Within artistic circles madness Somehow IS normal."
She tells a detail of the biography of the poet Robert Lowell began a manic episode. His wife worried but these academic colleagues and friends were Cicinnati he behaved like a poet when his wife saw him sick. While she was concerned and referred to the symptoms, they replied that this was the foolishness to them that it was "further proof of the genius of Lowell.
The degenerate "artist" according to Max Nordau: "He is very proud to be an instrument that vibrates so strongly, and he boasts of his whole being felt within devastated, his whole soul resolved, and experience to the fingertips pleasure of beauty, where the Philistine remains completely cold. His excitability seemed superior, he believes have a particular understanding is lacking in other mortals, and he willingly despise the vulgar whose senses are dulled and closed. The unfortunate not suspect that he is proud of a disease and boasts of a mental disorder. "
In the first part of the book by Georges Canguilhem, "the normal and the pathological," we oppose the disease-possession (rejecting qqchose is recovering it's health) of disease-totalizing "the disease is not somewhere in humans. It is the whole man (...) ". As the author says, in the first case we expect nothing good from nature ... 
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