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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Contributor(s): Jamison, Kay Redfield (Author)

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ISBN: 0679763309     ISBN-13: 9780679763307
Publisher: Vintage
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 1997
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Annotation: As a founder of UCLA's Affective Disorder Clinic and a co-author of a standard medical text, Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison may be the foremost authority on manic-depressive illness. She is also one of its survivors. And it is this dual perspective -- as healer and healed -- that makes Jamison's memoir so lucid, learned, and profoundly affecting.
Even as she was pursuing her psychiatric training, Jamison found herself succumbing to the exhilarating highs and paralyzing lows that afflicted many of her patients. Though the disorder brought her seemingly boundless energy and mercurial creativity, it also propelled her into spending sprees, episodes of violence, and an attempt at suicide.
Powerfully candid, exceptionally wise, An Unquiet Mind is one of those rare books that has the power to transform lives -- and even save them.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Self-help | Mood Disorders - Depression
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Self-help | Mood Disorders - General
Dewey: B
LCCN: 95014273
Lexile Measure: 1240(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" L (0.50 lbs) 240 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
Features: Price on Product, Table of Contents
Review Citations: New York Times 02/02/1997 pg. 28
Publishers Weekly 09/03/1996
New York Review of Books 09/25/2008 pg. 57
 
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Publisher Description:

WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR

In her bestselling classic, An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison changed the way we think about moods and madness.

Dr. Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness; she has also experienced it firsthand. For even while she was pursuing her career in academic medicine, Jamison found herself succumbing to the same exhilarating highs and catastrophic depressions that afflicted many of her patients, as her disorder launched her into ruinous spending sprees, episodes of violence, and an attempted suicide.

Here Jamison examines bipolar illness from the dual perspectives of the healer and the healed, revealing both its terrors and the cruel allure that at times prompted her to resist taking medication. An Unquiet Mind is a memoir of enormous candor, vividness, and wisdom--a deeply powerful book that has both transformed and saved lives.

 
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