From her jubilant childhood to the disquiet that has dominated her adult life, she charts a journey through her own mind, and those of others. An Unquiet Mind is a memoir of enormous candor, vividness, and wisdom a deeply powerful book that has both transformed and saved lives.

While pursuing her career in medicine, she was affected by the same exhilarating highs and catastrophic lows that afflicted many of her patients. Now, all of a sudden, my mind had turned on me: it mocked me for my vapid enthusiasms it laughed at all of my foolish plans it no longer found anything interesting or enjoyable or worthwhile.ĭr Kay Redfield Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic depression (bipolar disorder) – and has experienced its terrors and cruel allure first-hand.

I was used to my mind being my best friend. 'It stands alone in the literature of manic depression for its bravery, brilliance and beauty.' – Oliver Sacks With an introduction by Andrew Solomon, writer and lecturer on psychology and culture. Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness 104 likes Like Depression is awful beyond words or sounds or bleeds relationships through suspicion, lack of confidence and self-respect, the inability to enjoy life, to walk or talk or think normally, the exhaustion, the night terrors, the day terrors. A classic memoir of enormous candour and courage, it teems with the wit and wisdom of its writer, Dr Kay Redfield Jamison. Urn:oclc:827735197 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120209035011 Scanner Unquiet Mind is a definitive examination of manic depression from both sides: doctor and patient, the healer and the healed. Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness tags: depression 225 likes Like Manic-depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live. OL8035371W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 90.43 Pages 246 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1299029582 Urn:lcp:unquietmindmemoi00jami:lcpdf:c4835571-c40b-4c6c-ba20-e46ba2a52329 Extramarc MIT Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier unquietmindmemoi00jami Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t17m1bg1q Isbn 9780679763307ĩ7000116 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL21605728M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:55:23 Boxid IA171701 Boxid_2 CH119101 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 1st Vintage Books ed.

An unquiet mind