>Do you know something about madness?  I am working a screenplay now where one
>of the characters has a psychotic incident.  He's diagnosed as being
>manic-depressive.  Do you have any knowledge of where good information about
>the causes of manic-depressive can be found?  I am especially looking for
>material that might have transcriptions of dialogue during an episode.  Thank
>you.
 
Get thee to PsychLit or MedLine, two indexes for articles and books in
psychiatry, psychology, and medicine; your library should have them on
CD-ROM. When there, search on manic depression and on keys like
"interviews," "transcription," like that. (There should be a list of
keywords for the search at the library as well.)
 
Chris