An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison

An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A deeply powerful memoir about bipolar illness that has both transformed and saved lives--with a new preface by the author. 

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, Touched with Fire, and other novels by Kay Redfield Jamison, PhD, have all been bestselling. She is a psychiatry professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Time named her a Hero of Medicine.

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ISBN 13	9780679763307
ISBN 10	0679763309
Title	An Unquiet Mind
Author	Kay Redfield Jamison
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1997-01-14
Number of pages	240
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