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An Unquiet Mind (Hardback)
$24.04 - Save $4.92 (16%) - RRP $28.96 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for An Unquiet MindFrom a leading international authority on manic-depressive illness--and one of only a handful of women who are full professors of medicine--comes a remarkable personal testimony: the revelation of her own struggle since childhood with manic-depression, and how it has shaped her life.
Full description- Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
- Published: 05 September 1995
- Format: Hardback 223 pages
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- Categories: Abnormal Psychology | Psychiatry
- ISBN 13: 9780679443742 ISBN 10: 0679443746
- Sales rank: 328,136
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Full description for An Unquiet Mind
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.
