An Unquiet Mind

• Author : Kay Redfield Jamison
• Publisher : Pan Macmillan
• Release : 15 December 2014

With an introduction by Andrew Solomon 'It stands alone in the literature of manic depression for its bravery, brilliance and beauty.' Oliver Sacks I was used to my mind being my best friend. 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. Dr Kay Redfield Jamison is one of the foremost authorities

• Author : Kay R. Jamison
• Publisher : Random House of Canada
• Release : 18 May 1996

The personal memoir of a manic depressive and an authority on the subject describes the onset of the illness during her teenage years and her determined journey through the realm of available treatments. Reprint. 125,000 first printing.

• Author : Theresa Hammond
• Publisher : Lulu.com
• Release : 18 May 2022

• Author : Kay Redfield Jamison
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 18 May 1996

The author recounts her own personal struggle with manic-depression and how it has shaped her life.

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 18 May 2022

From Kay Redfield Jamison - an international authority on manic-depressive illness, and one of the few women who are full professors of medicine at American universities - a remarkable personal testimony: the revelation of her own struggle since adolescence with manic-depression, and how it has shaped her life. Vividly, directly, with candor, wit, and simplicity, she takes us into the fascinating and dangerous territory of this form of madness - a world in which one pole can be the alluring

• Author : Kay R. Jamison
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 18 May 1996

• Author : Kay Redfield Jamison
• Publisher : Vintage
• Release : 15 September 2009

Kay Redfield Jamison, award-winning professor and writer, changed the way we think about moods and madness. Now Jamison uses her characteristic honesty, wit and eloquence to look back at her relationship with her husband, Richard Wyatt, a renowned scientist who died of cancer. Nothing was the Same is a penetrating psychological study of grief viewed from deep inside the experience itself.

• Author : Kay Redfield Jamison
• Publisher : Vintage
• Release : 28 September 2004

With the same grace and breadth of learning she brought to her studies of the mind’s pathologies, Kay Redfield Jamison examines one of its most exalted states: exuberance. This “abounding, ebullient, effervescent emotion” manifests itself everywhere from child’s play to scientific breakthrough and is crucially important to learning, risk-taking, social cohesiveness, and survival itself. Exuberance: The Passion for Life introduces us to such notably irrepressible types as Teddy Roosevelt, John Muir, and Richard Feynman, as well as Peter

• Author : Kay Redfield Jamison
• Publisher : Vintage
• Release : 12 January 2011

From the author of the best-selling memoir An Unquiet Mind, comes the first major book in a quarter century on suicide, and its terrible pull on the young in particular. Night Falls Fast is tragically timely: suicide has become one of the most common killers of Americans between the ages of fifteen and forty-five. An internationally acknowledged authority on depressive illnesses, Dr. Jamison has also known suicide firsthand: after years of struggling with manic-depression, she tried at age twenty-eight to

• Author : David Trend
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 28 April 2016

Americans think of their country as a welcoming place where everyone has equal opportunity. Yet historical baggage and anxious times can restrain these possibilities. Newcomers often find that civic belonging comes with strings attached––riddled with limitations or legally punitive rites of passage. For those already here, new challenges to civic belonging emerge on the basis of belief, behavior, or heritage. This book uses the term "elsewhere" in describing conditions that exile so many citizens to "some other place" through

• Author : Donna Jackson Nakazawa
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release : 21 February 2013

One day Donna Jackson Nakazawa found herself lying on the floor to recover from climbing the stairs. That’s when it hit her. She was managing the symptoms of the autoimmune disorders that had plagued her for a decade, but she had lost her joy. As a science journalist, she was curious to know what mind-body strategies might help her. As a wife and mother she was determined to get her life back. Over the course of one year, Nakazawa

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 18 May 2022

• Author : Annie Payson Call
• Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
• Release : 20 September 2018

Reproduction of the original: Nerves and Common Sense by Annie Payson Call

• Author : John Horgan
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 14 November 2000

A respected journalist explores the fields of science that try to explain the mysteries of the human mind, arguing that science has done little to plumb the depths of our minds and cannot ever rationally explain all of human behavior. 50,000 first printing.

• Author : Femi Oyebode
• Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
• Release : 28 September 2018

Since its first edition in 1988, this book has become the leading introductory textbook on clinical psychopathology. Now fully revised and updated, it is an invaluable reference for psychiatrists of all levels as well as clinical psychologists, allied mental health professionals and researchers in this field. Comprehensive and accessible overview of clinical psychopathology. Defines, clarifies and describes the main symptoms and syndromes of mental illness encountered in clinical practice. Illustrates key principles of psychopathology with examples drawn from a wide range