An Unquiet Mind

A MEMOIR OF MOODS AND MADNESS

Kay Redfield Jamison

c. 1995

223pg

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1995. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. 5 x8.25 inches

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.

THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS BOOK IS EQUAL IN ITS SCOPE TO THAT OF WILLIAM STYRON'S VISLIBLE DARKNESS. THE PROCESS OF A MENTAL BREAKDOWN IS INCIDIOUS, INVASIVE AND ALL CONSUMING. THE ADVENT OF LITHIUM AND OTHER DRUGS HAS HELPED BUT THE VERY CONDITION REDUCES THE HUMAN BEING TO A UNDIGNIFIED LUMP OF FLESH. THE RESULT IS ALL TOO OFTEN , SUICIDE.

Edition: First

Printing: Fifteenth Printing, September 1996

Hardcover: 223 pages

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York

ISBN-10: 0-679-44374-6

Language: English

Book Dimensions: 5” x 8.25” inches

Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds