1-800-LECTURE





IN PRINT

Book Cover

An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

Kay Redfied Jamison, a psychiatry professor, author and recipient of numerous national and international scientific awards describes her own struggle since adolescence with manic-depressive illness and recounts how it has shaped her life.

Published 1995

 


Book Cover

Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

Night Falls Fast is a scholarly piece of work whose appeal nevertheless extends far beyond a professional readership. The book helps us to understand the suicidal mind, to recognize and come to the aid of those at risk, and to comprehend the profound effects on those left behind. It is critical reading for parents, educators, and anyone wanting to understand this tragic epidemic.

Published 2000


Book Cover

Exuberance: The Passion for Life

Kay Redfield Jamison explores the psychological state of exuberance: its origins, its contagious nature, its impact on society and on the life and work of the individual experiencing it. Jamison interviews writers of children's stories, scientists and artists in an attempt to define the nature of exuberance and how it relates to intellectual searching, risk-taking, creativity and survival itself.

Published 2004


Book Cover

Nothing Was the Same

From the internationally acclaimed author of An Unquiet Mind, a haunting meditation on mortality, grief, and loss. 

Perhaps no one but Kay Jamison—who combines the acute perceptions of a psychologist with writerly elegance and passion—could bring such a delicate touch to the subject of losing a spouse to cancer. In spare and at times strikingly lyrical prose, Jamison 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. And with characteristic honesty, she describes his slow surrender to cancer, her own struggle with overpowering grief, and her efforts to distinguish grief from depression.

But she also recalls the joy that Richard brought her during the nearly twenty years they had together. Wryly humorous anecdotes mingle with bittersweet memories of a relationship that was passionate and loving—if troubled on occasion by her manic depression—as Jamison reveals the ways in which Richard taught her to live fully through his courage and grace.

A penetrating study of grief viewed from deep inside the experience itself, Nothing Was the Same is also a deeply moving memoir by a superb writer.

Published 2009

 


Book Cover

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

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 creativity. Anyone reading this book closely will be forced to conclude that it is.

Published 1996

 




Site Map • Privacy Policy | Royce Carlton © 2013 All rights reserved.