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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Preface: Ethnographic Ways and Means | |
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| Acknoledgments | |
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| Introduction: Manic Depression in America | |
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| Rational and Irrational | |
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| Brains and Genes | |
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| The Drug Factor | |
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| A Short History of Manic Depression | |
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| Mania Depression in Culture | |
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| Research Methods | |
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| Mania Depression as Experience | |
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| Personhood and Emotion | |
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| What Are Moods? | |
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| Mood and Motivation | |
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| Our Manic Affinity | |
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| Performing the "Rationality" of "Irrationality" | |
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| Patients' Rationality: Double Bookkeeping | |
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| Doctors' Rationality: A Closed Circle | |
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| The Bipolar Experience: Multiplicity | |
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| The Bipolar Experience: Interruption | |
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| Sounding a Second Voice | |
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| Style and Mania Performances | |
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| Managing Mania and Depression | |
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| I Now Pronounce You Manic Depressive | |
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| I'm in a Hole | |
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| I Thought I Was Normal When I Was Speedy | |
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| What Is the Diagnosis? | |
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| Who Is Manic? | |
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| What Is Bipolar 2b? | |
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| I Ain't Gonna Mess with It Backwards | |
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| Maybe He Is a Normal Variant | |
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| I'm a Twenty-Year-Old College Student with a 3.75 GPA and I Am Not Crazy | |
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| Subjection and Rationality | |
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| Inside the Diagnosis | |
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| DSM Categories as "Text-Atoms" | |
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| The Work of Support Groups | |
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| Performativity, Intention, and Diagnosis | |
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| Pharmaceutical Personalities | |
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| Marketing a Psychotropic Drug | |
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| The Rationality of Consumers | |
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| Living with Drugs | |
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| Mania as a Resource | |
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| Taking the Measure of Moods and Motivations | |
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| Mood Hygiene | |
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| Evading Mood Charts | |
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| From Temperate to Hot | |
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| Revaluing Mania | |
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| Sociality and Confirmity | |
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| Mania Depression and Creativity Today | |
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| Gender and Mania Depression | |
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| Race and Mania Depression | |
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| Manic Depression as an "Asset" | |
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| A Mental State as a "Thing" | |
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| Understanding Mania and Manic Depressions in Their Contexts | |
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| Manic Markets | |
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| Links between Individuals and Markets | |
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| Learning to Be Manic | |
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| Mania in the Market | |
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| A Few Manic Heroes, Past and Present | |
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| Manic Affinity | |
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| A Few Fallen Heroes | |
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| The Edge | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Race and Gender Revisited | |
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| Optimizing Moods | |
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| The End of Madness? | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |