An unquiet mind
About this book
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
- 44.91 psychiatry, psychopathology
- biographies
- biography
- bipolaires
- bipolaire stoornis
- bipolar disorder
- casestudies
- depression
- femmes psychiatres
- manic-depressive illness
- manic-depressive persons
- manic-depressive psychoses
- médecins
- mental health
- mentally ill, biography
- mentally ill persons
- nonfiction
- patients
- people with bipolar disorder
- personal narratives
- physicians
- popular works
- professeures (enseignement supérieur)
- psychology
- self-improvement
- united states
- women college teachers
- women physicians
- women psychiatrists