An unquiet mind

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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.

subjects: Biography,  Bipolar Disorder,  Depression,  Manic-depressive illness,  Manic-depressive persons,  Mental health,  Patients,  Personal narratives,  Physicians,  United States,  Women college teachers,  Women psychiatrists,  Casestudies,  Bipolaire stoornis,  44.91 psychiatry, psychopathology,  People with bipolar disorder,  Bipolaires,  Biographies,  Professeures (Enseignement supérieur),  Femmes psychiatres,  Médecins,  Manic-depressive psychoses,  Nonfiction,  Popular works,  Psychology,  Self-Improvement,  Mentally ill, biography

People: Kay R. Jamison,  Kay R Jamison,  Kay Redfield Jamison

Places: United States