@article{ref1,
title="La locura de Virginia Woolf",
journal="Trastor. ánimo",
year="2005",
author="Figueroa C., Gustavo",
volume="1",
number="2",
pages="188-205",
abstract="Background. This investigation attempts to evaluate the mental disorder that the novelist Virginia Wolf suffered from, and to determine the relationship between her creativity and her insanity. <br><br>METHOD. To give detailed descriptions of her major breakdowns and minor illnesses her suicide, her personality, and her outstanding artistic achievements. <br><br>RESULTS. What most characterizes her illnesses is in particular, typical phases of severely impairing depression and significant mania, culminating in suicide at the age of 59. this is a convincing life history of bipolar I disorder although a “broad bipolar spectrum” (soft bipolar II) is also possible to be considered. She was moderately stable as well exceptionally productive from 1914 until she committed suicide in 1941. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS. Virginia Woolf created little or nothing while unwell, and was productive between attacks. A detailed analysis of her own creativity over the years shows that her illnesses were the source of material for her novels.<p /><p>Language: es</p>",
language="es",
issn="0718-2015",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}