Location: Home :: Books on Aging :: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

Need a quick gift? Try Amazon gift certificates.

Don't Forget To Visit:

The New Social Worker Online

SocialWorkJobBank

Online Continuing Education for Social Workers

Amazon.com Widgets

Related Categories

•	Biographies & Memoirs

•

Biographies & Memoirs

Subjects

•

General

Specific Groups

Biographies & Memoirs

Subjects

An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

enlarge

Author: Kay Redfield Jamison
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Book

List Price: ~~$14.95~~
Buy Used: $2.85
as of 11/21/2009 11:50 PST details
You Save: $12.10 (81%)

New (64) Used (301) from $2.85

Seller: blueridgebookdeals

Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 240
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.7

ISBN: 0679763309
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8950092
EAN: 9780679763307
ASIN: 0679763309

Publication Date: October 1996
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Features:

•	ISBN13: 9780679763307
•	Condition: NEW
•	Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
•	Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices

Similar Items:

Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament

Exuberance: The Passion for Life

Nothing Was the Same

The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide: What You and Your Family Need to Know

Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness

Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.com Review
In Touched with Fire, Kay Redfield Jamison, a psychiatrist, turned a mirror on the creativity so often associated with mental illness. In this book she turns that mirror on herself. With breathtaking honesty she tells of her own manic depression, the bitter costs of her illness, and its paradoxical benefits: "There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness.... It will never end, for madness carves its own reality." This is one of the best scientific autobiographies ever written, a combination of clarity, truth, and insight into human character. "We are all, as Byron put it, differently organized," Jamison writes. "We each move within the restraints of our temperament and live up only partially to its possibilities." Jamison's ability to live fully within her limitations is an inspiration to her fellow mortals, whatever our particular burdens may be. --Mary Ellen Curtin

Product Description
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. NYT.

Customer Reviews:

Showing reviews 1-5 of 100

1 2 3 4 5 6 ...20 Next »

Good Book for Those Unfamiliar with Bipolar Disorder November 2, 2009
Alexander D. Sunshine (Washington, DC)
This is an interesting book about the experiences of someone with bipolar disorder. Having been touched by it in my personal life, I was eager to understand how the treatment of the disorder affects the person afflicted with it. This book provides a window into the mind of someone going through the trauma of bipolar disorder. I would commend it to anyone who knows or is him/herself suffering from the disorder.

4 out of 5 stars

A remarkable memoir by a Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins discussing her own battles with Manic-Depression October 21, 2009
R. Neil Scott (Murfreesboro, TN USA)
I picked this book up wondering how a Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins with a history of manic-depression managed to deal with the mental anguish and turmoil that such a disorder brings and -- not just, survive, but thrive -- to become a respected and noted authority on the subject! Amazing!

Dr. Jamison offers readers an honest, sincere memoir of her young academic years at UCLA and in Scotland where she was trying to figure out how to make it from one day to the next amid the emotional highs and dark, suicidal lows brought on by her illness. She candidly discusses the feelings that often lead such individuals to over-spend, go without sleep, engage in risky personal relationships and not want to or easily adjust to taking Lithium. She then goes on to describe her middle-age professional years at UCLA, a year-long sabbatical in London and at Oxford, and how she managed the difficult balancing act of surviving her personal life while balancing research, publication and teaching during the day. She describes the difficulty she faced over-and-again, in admitting her medical condition to the men she dated and loved and the impact her illness had on these relationships and her medical peers at work.

This is an up-lifting, positive and hopeful book for those with a friend, spouse or family member suffering with this type of illness. Written in a warm, conversational style -- you can't help but say Bravo! when -- near the end -- where Dr. Jamison is once again informing a medical supervisor of her plight, she writes: [the doctor from Johns Hopkins] "reached across the table, put his hand on mine, and ...said, 'I KNOW you have a manic-depressive illness.' He paused, then laughed, 'If we got rid of all the manic-depressives on the medical school faculty, not only would we have a much smaller faculty, it would also be a far more boring one.'" Indeed.

Highly recommended for both public and college/university library collections.

R. Neil Scott
Middle Tennessee State University

5 out of 5 stars

firsthand witness and scientific point of view October 5, 2009
Pierre HENON (charleville-mezieres, France)
Kay Redfield Jamison witness for us the momentum of the manic depressive illness. She does it as a MD and as a young women trying to conceal is own life and the manic tantrums.
Perfectly written, she testify how the meds are working and how they must be adjusted the each outpatient. The telling of her trip to Scotland and Great Britain and the consequence of a part remission of the illness, is more useful than any other research works. You can't rely only on the meds even they are absolutely necessary. People with manic depressive illness have mind and feelings. They must work, with their parents, sibling and friends, on the surrounding life and find a way of living.The meds are the base, but the cognitive therapy, the way you look at the world, at your world, is the way to a almost real life. Kay Redfield Jamison has the strength to witness this for us and it is a very useful gift.

5 out of 5 stars

A must read for all persons with bipolar disorder and their families and friends. September 18, 2009
Kelly Ann
An Unquiet Mind is an amazing book about bipolar disorder. The author shares her personal experiences while including accurate medical information about bipolar disorder. It is a book that can be read in one day.

4 out of 5 stars

highly informative and compasionate September 14, 2009
anouk johanna (Santa Cruz, CA USA)
[[ASIN:0679763309 An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

Redfield Jamison is a psychiatrist who writes compassionately about her own experiences as a person with mania and mood disorders but also approaches it from the perspective of a scientist discovering what causes these disorders and how to treat them. Always compassionate and never boring. A must read for anybody who has problems in this realm her or himself or who has a close friend or family member with it. This book will make you understand why there is such a stigma surrounding this illness and why it is so difficult to be treated and for people who suffer from it to even admit to struggling with it. Highly informative reading.

Showing reviews 1-5 of 100

1 2 3 4 5 6 ...20 Next »

CERTAIN CONTENT THAT APPEARS ON THIS SITE COMES FROM AMAZON SERVICES LLC. THIS CONTENT IS PROVIDED ‘AS IS’ AND IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE OR REMOVAL AT ANY TIME.

Copyright 2009 White Hat Communications.
Disclaimer: The products referenced on this site are manufactured and sold by parties other than The New Social Worker/White Hat Communications. We make no representations regarding either the products or any information vendors offer about their products.

Visit our poster store for unique social issues posters.

Amazon.com Widgets