An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and MadnessNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A deeply powerful memoir about bipolar illness that has both transformed and saved lives—with a new preface by the author. Dr. Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness; she has also experienced it firsthand. For even while she was pursuing her career in academic medicine, Jamison found herself succumbing to the same exhilarating highs and catastrophic depressions that afflicted many of her patients, as her disorder launched her into ruinous spending sprees, episodes of violence, and an attempted suicide. Here Jamison examines bipolar illness from the dual perspectives of the healer and the healed, revealing both its terrors and the cruel allure that at times prompted her to resist taking medication. |
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... Brave , insightful , richly textured and chillingly authentic . " " Extraordinary ... -Boston Globe ... An Unquiet Mind must be read . " -The New England Journal of Medicine " A beautiful , funny , original book . Powerfully.
... Brave , insightful , richly textured and chillingly authentic . " " Extraordinary ... -Boston Globe ... An Unquiet Mind must be read . " -The New England Journal of Medicine " A beautiful , funny , original book . Powerfully.
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A Memoir of Moods and Madness Kay Redfield Jamison. " A beautiful , funny , original book . Powerfully written , it is a wonderful and important account of mercurial moods and madness . I absolutely love this book . " -Pat Conroy ...
A Memoir of Moods and Madness Kay Redfield Jamison. " A beautiful , funny , original book . Powerfully written , it is a wonderful and important account of mercurial moods and madness . I absolutely love this book . " -Pat Conroy ...
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... beautiful . In some strange way , I have tried to do that with manic - depressive ill- ness . It has been a fascinating , albeit deadly , enemy and companion ; I have found it to be seductively compli- cated , a distillation both of ...
... beautiful . In some strange way , I have tried to do that with manic - depressive ill- ness . It has been a fascinating , albeit deadly , enemy and companion ; I have found it to be seductively compli- cated , a distillation both of ...
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... beautiful one in the family , with dark hair and wonder- ful eyes , who from the earliest times was almost painfully aware of everything around her . She had a charismatic way , a fierce temper , very black and passing moods , and ...
... beautiful one in the family , with dark hair and wonder- ful eyes , who from the earliest times was almost painfully aware of everything around her . She had a charismatic way , a fierce temper , very black and passing moods , and ...
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... beautiful in the original . Once , my father having read that George Bernard Shaw had left money in his will to develop a phonetic alphabet and that he had specified that Androcles and the Lion should be the first of his plays to be ...
... beautiful in the original . Once , my father having read that George Bernard Shaw had left money in his will to develop a phonetic alphabet and that he had specified that Androcles and the Lion should be the first of his plays to be ...
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