# An unquiet mind

**Author(s):** Kay R. Jamison, Kay Redfield Jamison
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**Genres:** biography, mental-health, psychology
**Pages:** 223
**Publisher:** Random House
**Published:** Sun Jan 01 1995 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780679443742
**ISBN-10:** 0307498484
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/an-unquiet-mind

## Description

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.

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**Themes:** Coming of Age, Mental Illness