An Unquiet Mind
An Unquiet Mind As a founder of UCLA's Affective Disorder Clinic and a co-author of a standard medical text, Dr. She is also one of its survivors. Kay Redfield Jamison may be the foremost authority…
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An Unquiet Mind
As a founder of UCLA's Affective Disorder Clinic and a co-author of a standard medical text, Dr. She is also one of its survivors. Kay Redfield Jamison may be the foremost authority on manic-depressive illness.
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. And it is this dual perspective -- as healer and healed -- that makes Jamison's memoir so lucid, learned, and profoundly affecting. 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.