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Has anyone read ‘An Unquiet Mind’ by Kay Redfield Jamison?

If you have … did it help you to understand bipolar disorder better?

I read it, adn there’s some passages I remember (her manic at a party, her dealing with bills), but I found it a bit dry.

Instead, I recommend her book Touched by Fire, that looks at lots of bipolar creative people. That book captures the breadth of highs and lows, I think.

Personal Reflections on Manic-Depressive Illness

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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness $6.41 WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHORIn her bestselling classic, An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison changed the way we think about moods and madness.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 hig…

Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament $4.68 The march of science in explaining human nature continues. In Touched With Fire, Jamison marshals a tremendous amount of evidence for the proposition that most artistic geniuses were (and are) manic depressives. This is a book of interest to scientists, psychologists, and artists struggling with the age-old question of whether psychological suffering is an essential component of artistic cre…

Exuberance: The Passion for Life $4.98 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. Ex…

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