Bipolar Disorder
Martin drew on her own experience with bipolar disorder to write Bipolar expeditions: mania and depression in American culture. In it, she argues that mania and depression have a cultural life outside the confines of psychiatry and that the extravagances of mood which might be dubbed 'irrational' are also present in the most 'rational' side of American life (for example, economics and the stock market.)
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