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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Dr Kay Redfield Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive illness. She has also experienced it first-hand. For even while she was pursuing her career in academic medicine, she was affected by the same exhilarating highs and catastrophic depressions that afflicted many of her patient ...Show more
An Unquiet Mind - A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
'It stands alone in the literature of manic depression for its bravery, brilliance and beauty' - Oliver Sacks An Unquiet Mind is a definitive examination of manic depression from both sides: doctor and patient, the healer and the healed. A classic memoir of enormous candour and courage, it teems with t ...Show more
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison
21.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Picador classics
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 on man ...Show more
Night Falls Fast : Understanding suicide by Kay Redfield Jamison
32.99 AUD
Category: Personal Development
Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, an internationally recognized authority on depressive illnesses and their treatment, knows the subject of suicide firsthand. At the age of twenty-eight, after years of struggling with manic-depression, she attempted to kill herself. Her survival marked the beginning of a life's ...Show more
Nothing Was the Same by Kay Redfield Jamison (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)
29.95 AUD
Category: Personal Development
In spare and at times strikingly lyrical prose, Jamison ("An Unquiet Mind") looks back at her relationship with her husband, Richard Wyatt, a renowned scientist who battled severe dyslexia to become one of the foremost experts on schizophrenia.
Touched With Fire - Manic-depressive Illness and the artistic temperament by Kay Redfield Jamison
34.99 AUD
Category: Self Help | Reading Level: very good
The anguished and volatile intensity associated with the artistic temperament was once thought to be a symptom of genius or eccentricity peculiar to artists, writers and musicians. Kay Jamison's work, based on her study as a clinical psychologist and researcher in mood disorders, reveals that many artis ...Show more
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