About the Book

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.

Product Details

Media: Paperback Book, 240 pages

Language: English

Publisher: Vintage Books USA

Edition: Unknown

ISBN-10: 0679763309

Publication Date: Jan. 14th, 1997

ISBN-13: 9780679763307

Dimensions: 5.22 x 8.01 x 0.63 inches

Shipping Weight: 0.55 lbs

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