An unquiet mind
By: Kay Redfield Jamison.
Publisher: A.A. Knopf; Distributed by Random House
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Jamison, Kay R. -- Mental health.; Depression -- Personal Narratives.
Genres: Personal Narratives.
Description: From Kay Redfield Jamison - an international authority on manic-depressive illness, and one of the few women who are full professors of medicine at American universities - a remarkable personal testimony: the revelation of her own struggle since adolescence with manic-depression, and how it has shaped her life.

Vividly, directly, with candor, wit, and simplicity, she takes us into the fascinating and dangerous territory of this form of madness - a world in which one pole can be the alluring dark land ruled by what Byron called the "melancholy star of the imagination," and the other a desert of depression and, all too frequently, death.

A moving and exhilarating memoir by a woman whose furious determination to learn the enemy, to use her gifts of intellect to make a difference, led her to become, by the time she was forty, a world authority on manic-depression, and whose work has helped save countless lives.