An unquiet mind

The Resource An unquiet mind
Label
An unquiet mind
Statement of responsibility
Kay Redfield Jamison
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Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
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
Biography type
autobiography
Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
616.895
Index
no index present
LC call number
RC516
LC item number
.J363 1995
Literary form
non fiction
NLM call number
  • 1995 H-853
  • WZ 100
NLM item number
J32 1995

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