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An Unquiet Mind - A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison
Category: Biography | Series: Picador Collection
'It stands alone in the literature of manic depression for its bravery, brilliance and beauty' - Oliver Sacks An Unquiet Mind is a definitive examination of manic depression from both sides: doctor and patient, the healer and the healed. A classic memoir of enormous candour and courage, it teems with t ...Show more
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison
Category: Biography | Series: Picador classics
I was used to my mind being my best friend. Now, all of a sudden, my mind had turned on me: it mocked me for my vapid enthusiasms; it laughed at all of my foolish plans; it no longer found anything interesting or enjoyable or worthwhile. Dr Kay Redfield Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on man ...Show more
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison
Category: Self-Help
Dr Kay Redfield Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive illness. She has also experienced it first-hand. For even while she was pursuing her career in academic medicine, she was affected by the same exhilarating highs and catastrophic depressions that afflicted many of her patient ...Show more
Exuberance : The Passion For Life by Kay Redfield Jamison
Category: Self-Help
Exuberance is everywhere, from child
Fires in the Dark - Healing the Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison
Category: Self-Help
The acclaimed author of An Unquiet Mind considers the age-old quest for relief from psychological pain and the role of the exceptional healer in the journey back to health. "To treat, even to cure, is not always to heal." In this expansive cultural history of the treatment and healing of mental sufferin ...Show more
Nothing Was the Same by Jamison Kay Redfield
Category: Biography
From the internationally acclaimed author of An Unquiet Mind, comes a haunting meditation on mortality, grief, and loss. Perhaps no one but Kay Jamison - who combines the acute perceptions of a psychologist with writerly elegance and passion - could bring such a delicate touch to the subject of losing a ...Show more
Nothing Was the Same by Kay Redfield Jamison (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)
Category: Biography
In spare and at times strikingly lyrical prose, Jamison ("An Unquiet Mind") looks back at her relationship with her husband, Richard Wyatt, a renowned scientist who battled severe dyslexia to become one of the foremost experts on schizophrenia.
Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire by Kay Redfield Jamison (Contribution by)
Category: Biography
In this magisterial study of the relationship between illness and art, the bestselling author of An Unquiet Mind brings a fresh perspective to the life and work of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Robert Lowell. In his poetry, Lowell put his manic-depressive illness (now known as bipolar disorder) into the p ...Show more
Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character by Kay Redfield Jamison
Category: Biography
A Pulitzer Prize Finalist In this magisterial study of the relationship between illness and art, the best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind brings a fresh perspective to the life and work of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Robert Lowell. In his poetry, Lowell put his manic-depressive illness (now known as ...Show more
Touched With Fire - Manic-depressive Illness and the artistic temperament by Kay Redfield Jamison
Category: Self-Help
The anguished and volatile intensity associated with the artistic temperament was once thought to be a symptom of genius or eccentricity peculiar to artists, writers and musicians. Kay Jamison's work, based on her study as a clinical psychologist and researcher in mood disorders, reveals that many artis ...Show more
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