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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 26
Page 17
... talk with : we played with my father ; we talked with my mother . Mother , who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life , it is how one plays them , is , by far , the highest card I was dealt . Kind ...
... talk with : we played with my father ; we talked with my mother . Mother , who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life , it is how one plays them , is , by far , the highest card I was dealt . Kind ...
Page 24
... talking to herself and braiding and unbraiding her long reddish hair . All the while , she was tracking , with her quick eyes , the move- ments of anyone who attempted to come anywhere near her . At first I was frightened by her , but I ...
... talking to herself and braiding and unbraiding her long reddish hair . All the while , she was tracking , with her quick eyes , the move- ments of anyone who attempted to come anywhere near her . At first I was frightened by her , but I ...
Page 26
... talk . She and my mother were , and indeed still are , best friends , and I always was made to feel a part of her extended brood . She was a nurse , and she listened carefully to me as I went on at great length about my grand plans for ...
... talk . She and my mother were , and indeed still are , best friends , and I always was made to feel a part of her extended brood . She was a nurse , and she listened carefully to me as I went on at great length about my grand plans for ...
Page 29
... talk to the young wives about everything from matters of etiquette , such as how to give a proper dinner party , to participation in community activities on the air base . After discussing these issues for a while , she turned to the ...
... talk to the young wives about everything from matters of etiquette , such as how to give a proper dinner party , to participation in community activities on the air base . After discussing these issues for a while , she turned to the ...
Page 37
You have reached your viewing limit for this book.
You have reached your viewing limit for this book.
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
absolutely academic asked beautiful became become behavior believe bipolar brain California clinical clinicians colleagues David death deeply depressive illness difficult dinner Directions Publishing doctors dreadful drug Dylan Thomas emotional enthusiasms everything experience father feel felt finally friends frightened gentle going graduate hospital Hugo Wolf imagine intellectual intense Jamison Kay Redfield Jamison kind knew laughed less living looked Los Angeles Zoo madness mania manic manic-depressive illness medical school medicine mental illness mood disorders mother ness never night normal once one's pain passion patients poem professional professor psychiatric psychiatrist psychology psychopharmacology psychotherapy psychotic question remember restless seemed sense side effects snakebite somehow strange studies suicide taking lithium talk teaching temperament terrible things thought tion told took treatment UCLA understand UNQUIET MIND Vincent Millay walked ward watching wonderful writing