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An unquiet mind / Kay Redfield Jamison.

Title
An unquiet mind / Kay Redfield Jamison.
Author
Jamison, Kay R.
Publication
New York : A.A. Knopf, 1995.

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Description
223 p.; 22 cm.
Summary
From Kay Redfield Jamison - an international authority on manic-depressive illness, and one of the few women who are full professors of medicine at American universities - a remarkable personal testimony: the revelation of her own struggle since adolescence with manic-depression, and how it has shaped her life. Vividly, directly, with candor, wit, and simplicity, she takes us into the fascinating and dangerous territory of this form of madness - a world in which one pole can be the alluring dark land ruled by what Byron called the "melancholy star of the imagination," and the other a desert of depression and, all too frequently, death. A moving and exhilarating memoir by a woman whose furious determination to learn the enemy, to use her gifts of intellect to make a difference, led her to become, by the time she was forty, a world authority on manic-depression, and whose work has helped save countless lives.
Subject
  • Jamison, Kay R
  • Jamison, Kay R. > Mental health
  • Physicians
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • People with bipolar disorder > United States > Biography
  • Women college teachers > United States > Biography
Genre/Form
  • Personal Narrative
  • Biographies
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The wild blue yonder -- A not so fine madness -- This medicine, love -- An unquiet mind.
ISBN
0679443746
LCCN
^^^95014273^//r95
OCLC
  • 32312965
  • SCSB-10683532
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library