Kay Redfield Jamison: An Unquiet Mind, Kartoniert / Broschiert
An Unquiet Mind
- A Memoir of Moods and Madness
- Publisher:
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 01/1997
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780679763307
- Item number:
- 9456356
- Volume:
- 242 Pages
- Weight:
- 224 g
- Format:
- 202 x 131 mm
- Thickness:
- 20 mm
- Release date:
- 14.1.1997
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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| Buch, Kartoniert / Broschiert, Englisch | EUR 11.57* |
Blurb
WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR
In her bestselling classic, An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison changed the way we think about moods and madness.
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. An Unquiet Mind is a memoir of enormous candor, vividness, and wisdom-a deeply powerful book that has both transformed and saved lives.
Biography
Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison ist Professorin für Psychiatrie an der Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. das Time Magazine wählte sie zum "Hero of Medicine". Die Autorin und Koautorin zahlreicher Bücher über bipolare Störungen leidet selbst an dieser Erkrankung und hat gelernt, mit ihr zu umzugehen. Seit 2010 ist sie mit dem Kardiologen und Medizinprofessor Thomas Traill verheiratet.
