Kay R. Jamison

The personal memoir of a manic depressive and an authority on the subject describes the onset of the illness during her teenage years and her determined journey through the realm of available treatments. Reprint. 125,000 first printing.

An Unquiet Mind

a memoir

Nothing was the same

Thomas A. Traill

"In his Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry, Robert Lowell (1917-1977) put his manic-depressive illness into the public domain. Now Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison brings her expertise to bear on his story, illuminating the relationship between bipolar illness and creativity, and examining how Lowell's illness and the treatment he received came to bear on his work"--

A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character

Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire

Toccato dal fuoco

Frederick K. Goodwin

Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression

Manic-depressive Illness

An analysis of the link between manic-depressive illness and artistic temperament focuses on the medical histories of Vincent van Gogh, Franz Schubert, Virginia Woolf, and other creative geniuses.

Manic-depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament

Touched with Fire

Explores the role of exuberance in humankind's most important creative and scientific accomplishments, discussing the nature of joy and its relationship to intellectual curiosity, creativity, risk-taking, and survival.

The Passion for Life

Exuberance

Associate Professor Department of Psychiatry Kay Redfield Jamison, PH.D.

A study of the growing epidemic of suicide among young people draws on the author's firsthand battle with severe manic-depression and attempted suicide to reveal the psychological, medical, and biological aspects of self-inflicted death

Kay R. Jamison

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