An Unquiet Mind
It must have come as quite a shock to her patients to be told by their therapist that she had been suffering from manic depression herself for over thirty years. Perhaps an even greater shock was felt by many of her colleagues, since Dr. Jamison is one of the leading scholars and authorities on...
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It must have come as quite a shock to her patients to be told by their therapist that she had been suffering from manic depression herself for over thirty years. Perhaps an even greater shock was felt by many of her colleagues, since Dr. Jamison is one of the leading scholars and authorities on manic depression.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780679443742 (0679443746)
ASIN: B004HQMFG0
Publish date: September 5th 1995
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Inc. (NY)
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
I had a good friend that was diagnosed with Manic Depressive Disorder and he's the biggest reason this book called out to me when I saw it. I always wondered what was going on in there and what the manias and depressions felt like. I always thought that understanding would help me interact with him ...
A very poignant first hand account of the struggle with bipolar disorder from a clinical psychologist who studies and treats the disorder.
I picked up a used copy of this at the Goodwill. Dr. Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness; she has also experienced it firsthand. For even while she was pursuing her career in academic medicine, Jamison found herself succumbing to the same exhilarating ...
Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison writes about her life dealing with bipolar. Her struggle with schools, relationships and her inner critic. My own psychiatrist recommend this book hoping I would relate that this was another woman struggling with illness and gaining the upper hand on. I really did not find...
While it was somewhat informative in the ways I needed it to be, it was at the same time grating and depressing to read. It was very hard to swallow all the privileges Jamison had in helping her through her experiences with bipolar disorder, knowing what my father went through himself. He didn't hav...
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