An unquiet mind : a memoir of moods and madness

Summary: "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."-- Amazon.

Record details

ISBN: 0679763309
ISBN: 9780679763307
Physical Description: xiii, 223 pages ; 21 cm
regular print
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Edition: First Vintage Books edition.
Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., [2011]
Copyright: ©1995.

Content descriptions

General Note:	This ISBN first used on the 1996 Vintage Books edition, then reused on the 2011 printing of that edition. "Originally published in slightly different form in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1995"--T.p. verso.
Formatted Contents Note:	Preface to the Vintage Books edition [15 years later] -- Prologue -- The wild blue yonder -- A not so fine madness -- This medicine, love -- An unquiet mind -- Epilogue.