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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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Details
- 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
- 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