Books by Kay Redfield Jamison and Complete Book Reviews
Kay Redfield Jamison, Author . Knopf $24 (416p) ISBN 978-0-375-40144-2
If exuberance is "the passion for life," then Jamison's enthusiasm and sense of wonder about the subject proves as fine an example as any examined in her newest work. Expert in the arena of mood and temperament, Jamison (An Unquiet Mind
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Kay Redfield Jamison, Author Alfred A Knopf Inc $28.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-679-44374-2
Johns Hopkins psychiatry professor Jamison, whose Touched with Fire addressed the link between manic-depressive illness and creativity, offers a poignant and powerful memoir of her own struggles with and triumphs over the disease. Her story suggests
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Kay Redfield Jamison, Author Free Press $16 (384p) ISBN 978-0-684-83183-1
Drawing from the lives of artists such as Van Gogh, Byron and Virginia Woolf, Jamison examines the links between manic-depression and creativity. (Oct.)
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Kay Redfield Jamison, Author Vintage Books USA $15 (240p) ISBN 978-0-679-76330-7
Jamison's memoir springs from her dual perspective as both a psychiatric expert in manic depression and a sufferer of the disease. (Oct.)
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Kay Redfield Jamison, Author Alfred A. Knopf $26 (448p) ISBN 978-0-375-40145-9
Providing historical, scientific and other helpful material on suicide, Jamison (An Unquiet Mind), a Johns Hopkins psychiatry professor, makes an excellent contribution to public understanding with this accessible and objective book. There is, she...
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Kay Redfield Jamison. Knopf, $29.95 (544p) ISBN 978-0-307-70027-8
Jamison (An Unquiet Mind), a psychologist and honorary professor of English at St. Andrew’s University, is uniquely qualified to pursue the connections between creativity and mania—in this case, through the brilliant example of American poet Robert...
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Kay Redfield Jamison. Knopf, $30 (400p) ISBN 978-0-525-65717-0
Psychologist Jamison (The Unquiet Mind) brings personal and professional insight to this rigorous, deeply felt meditation on psychological healing. Focusing on the relationships between sufferers and those who help them, Jamison begins with the...
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