An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison Paperback Book

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Author: Kay Redfield Jamison

Format: Quality Paperback

Publisher: Vintage Books USA

Published: Jan 1995

Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Specific Groups - General

Retail Price: $18.00

Pages: 240

Synopsis

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

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