An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

Name: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Kay Redfield Jamison
ISBN: 8581000001805

Kay Redfield Jamison

14/01/1997
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness par Kay Redfield Jamison

Résumé

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A deeply powerful memoir about bipolar illness that has both transformed and saved lives—with a new preface by the author. 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 highs and catastrophic depressions that afflicted many of her patients, as her disorder launched her into ruinous spending sprees, episodes of violence, and an attempted suicide. Here Jamison examines bipolar illness from the dual perspectives of the healer and the healed, revealing both its terrors and the cruel allure that at times prompted her to resist taking medication.