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| Genre/Form: | Autobiography |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Jamison, Kay R. Unquiet mind. New York : A.A. Knopf, 1995 (OCoLC)604051335 |
| Named Person: | Kay R Jamison; Kay R Jamison |
| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Kay R Jamison |
| ISBN: | 0679443746 9780679443742 |
| OCLC Number: | 32312965 |
| Description: | 223 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | The wild blue yonder -- A not so fine madness -- This medicine, love -- An unquiet mind. |
| Responsibility: | Kay Redfield Jamison. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
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.
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