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Kay Redfield Jamison is an American clinical psychologist and writer, best known for her work on mood disorders, particularly bipolar disorder, from which she herself suffers. She is a professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and has authored several influential books on mental health, including Touched with Fire and Night Falls Fast.
Known for: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
An Unquiet Mind is a memoir by clinical psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison, chronicling her personal experience with manic-depressive illness (bipolar disorder). Drawing from her dual perspective as both a mental health professional and a patient, Jamison explores the challenges, treatments, and emotional extremes of living with the condition, while also reflecting on the impact it has had on her career, relationships, and sense of self.
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Early Life and Family Background
I grew up in a household charged with energy—my father was brilliant, charismatic, and mercurial; my mother, gentle and grounded, bore the brunt of his tempests. My siblings and I lived between the atmospheres of joy and volatility, and it was in that oscillation that my emotional life began. Even a...
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Academic and Professional Beginnings
My fascination with psychology was born out of those early emotional intensities. At UCLA, I immersed myself in the study of the mind, drawn particularly to mood disorders—those elusive, potent currents that shaped both creativity and catastrophe. The irony, of course, was that I was unknowingly stu...
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About Kay Redfield Jamison
Kay Redfield Jamison is an American clinical psychologist and writer, best known for her work on mood disorders, particularly bipolar disorder, from which she herself suffers. She is a professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and has authored several influential boo...
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Kay Redfield Jamison is an American clinical psychologist and writer, best known for her work on mood disorders, particularly bipolar disorder, from which she herself suffers. She is a professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and has authored several influential boo...
Kay Redfield Jamison is an American clinical psychologist and writer, best known for her work on mood disorders, particularly bipolar disorder, from which she herself suffers. She is a professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and has authored several influential books on mental health, including Touched with Fire and Night Falls Fast.
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Kay Redfield Jamison is an American clinical psychologist and writer, best known for her work on mood disorders, particularly bipolar disorder, from which she herself suffers. She is a professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and has authored several influential books on mental health, including Touched with Fire and Night Falls Fast.
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