Exuberance The Passion for Life, by Kay Redfield Jamison

From Amazon.com:

Dr. Jamison, who has battled bipolar disorder and is an expert on mood study, examines what "exuberance" is, how individuals possess it, use it, or are possessed and used by it. She discusses what it means to be intensely enthusiastic about life, and how that can impact those around you.

An excerpt from Publisher's Weekly review:

The dual nature of humanity is a common theme, as Jamison distinguishes between introversion and extroversion, nature and nurture, and healthy emotion and pathology. Such analysis is at times thorough to the point of redundancy, and even the most interested reader may find parts of the book exhausting to navigate. But Jamison makes up for it with her contagious enthusiasm for the subject-a mood that will make readers feel, well, exuberant.

Perhaps Snoopy explains it best when, as exemplified in a comic strip here, he leaps for joy, waxing philosophically: "To those of us with real understanding, dancing is the only pure art form.... To live is to dance, to dance is to live."

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