>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