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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... going mad . The man I was with , a colleague from the medical school , had stopped running an hour earlier and was , he said impa- tiently , exhausted . This , to a saner mind , would not have been surprising : the usual distinction ...
... going mad . The man I was with , a colleague from the medical school , had stopped running an hour earlier and was , he said impa- tiently , exhausted . This , to a saner mind , would not have been surprising : the usual distinction ...
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... going to be hard to explain . My colleague , fortunately , was thinking far better than I was and managed to reach down into some deeply intuitive part of his own and the world's collective unconscious and said , " We're both on the ...
... going to be hard to explain . My colleague , fortunately , was thinking far better than I was and managed to reach down into some deeply intuitive part of his own and the world's collective unconscious and said , " We're both on the ...
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... there is no question of going back . I find myself some- what inevitably taking a certain solace in Robert Low- ell's essential question , Yet why not say what happened ? Part One THE WILD BLUE YONDER Into the Sun I AN UNQUIET MIND.
... there is no question of going back . I find myself some- what inevitably taking a certain solace in Robert Low- ell's essential question , Yet why not say what happened ? Part One THE WILD BLUE YONDER Into the Sun I AN UNQUIET MIND.
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... going through and more serious commit- ments . Even my phases , however , were for the most part tolerated with kindness and imagination . Being partic- ularly given to strong and absolute passions , I was at one point desperately ...
... going through and more serious commit- ments . Even my phases , however , were for the most part tolerated with kindness and imagination . Being partic- ularly given to strong and absolute passions , I was at one point desperately ...
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... going on in front of me ; after a while , how- ever , curiosity became a compelling force in its own right . I focused on the questions and stopped seeing the body . As has been true a thousand times since , my curiosity and temperament ...
... going on in front of me ; after a while , how- ever , curiosity became a compelling force in its own right . I focused on the questions and stopped seeing the body . As has been true a thousand times since , my curiosity and temperament ...
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