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An Unquiet Mind
by Kay Redfield Jamison
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Kay Redfield Jamison was a young professor of psychiatry, researching mood disorders, when she was already living with the illness she studied. This memoir follows her from a military childhood in Washington to life as a researcher and clinician in California. She traces the exhilaration and devastation of manic-depressive illness, her long resistance to lithium, the relationships that held her up and the professional risks of speaking openly. Written with a scientist's precision and a patient's candour, it moves between the clinical facts of the condition and what it feels like from inside, and it asks hard questions about stigma, treatment and how temperament shapes a self.
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