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Kay Redfield Jamison

Author of An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

Includes the names: Kay Jamison, Kay R. Jamison, K. Redfield Jamison, Kay Refield Jamison, Kay Redfield Jamison, Kay Redfield Jamison

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Clinical psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison was born on June 22, 1946. She received a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is considered one of the foremost experts on bipolar disorder, which she has had since her early adulthood. She is Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a Honorary Professor of English at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. She is the author of numerous books including An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness; Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide; and Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness… (more)

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Works by Kay Redfield Jamison

An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness 3,969 copies, 59 reviews

Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament 1,226 copies, 7 reviews

Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide 978 copies, 13 reviews

Exuberance: The Passion for Life 487 copies, 5 reviews

Nothing Was the Same: A Memoir 266 copies, 5 reviews

Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and… 119 copies, 2 reviews

Manic-Depressive Illness 95 copies, 1 review

Fires in the Dark: Healing the Unquiet Mind 24 copies, 1 review

Fierce goodbye living in the shadow of suicide [DVD version] (Host) 6 copies

The Benefits of Restlessness and Jagged Edges: A 'This I Believe' Essay… 2 copies

Erken Coken Karanlik 2 copies

Dr. James Watson: the discovery of DNA: in 1953, James Watson and Francis… 1 copy

Kay Redfield Jamison surviving bipolar disorder 1 copy

Bipolar: Una mente inquieta 1 copy, 1 review

60 minutes. Understanding suicide 1 copy

Marcados con fuego : la enfermedad maniaco-depresiva y el temperamento… 1 copy

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Also by Kay Redfield Jamison

This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women (Contributor) 1,078 copies, 32 reviews

Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression (Introduction) 484 copies, 8 reviews

A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology (Contributor) 78 copies

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1946-06-22

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University of California, Los Angeles

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clinical psychologist

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University of California, Los Angeles

Johns Hopkins University

National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research

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MacArthur Fellowship (2001)

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In addition to her academic works, Prof. Jamison chronicled her own struggle with bipolar disorder (severe mania and depression) in her 1995 memoir An Unquiet Mind.

Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the co-author of the definitive medical text Manic-Depressive Illness. Dr. Jamison is a member of the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research. She is also the executive producer and writer for a series of award-winning public television specials about manic-depressive illness and the arts. [from Touched with Fire (1993)]

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