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A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Vintage
January 1997
240 pages ISBN: 0679763309 Trade Size (reprint)
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Non-Fiction Memoir
As a founder of UCLA's Affective Disorder Clinic and a
co-author of a standard medical text, Dr. Kay Redfield
Jamison may be the foremost authority on manic-depressive
illness. She is also one of its survivors. And it is this
dual perspective -- as healer and healed -- that makes
Jamison's memoir so lucid, learned, and profoundly
affecting. Even as she was pursuing her psychiatric
training, Jamison found herself succumbing to the
exhilarating highs and paralyzing lows that afflicted many
of her patients. Though the disorder brought her seemingly
boundless energy and mercurial creativity, it also propelled
her into spending sprees, episodes of violence, and an
attempt at suicide. Powerfully candid, exceptionally
wise, An Unquiet Mind is one of those rare books that
has the power to transform lives -- and even save them.
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