Kay Redfield Jamison
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born
June 22, 1946
gender
female
place of birth
The United States
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Health, Mind & Body
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Kay Redfield Jamison is an American clinical psychologist and writer who is one of the foremost experts on bipolar disorder. She is Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and is an Honorary Professor of English at the University of St Andrews.
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"If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?"
— Kay Redfield Jamison (An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness)
— Kay Redfield Jamison (An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness)
"Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them, is, by far, the highest card I was dealt."
— Kay Redfield Jamison (An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness)
— Kay Redfield Jamison (An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness)
"I compare myself with my former self, not with others. Not only that, I tend to compare my current self with the best I have been, which is when I have been midly manic. When I am my present "normal" self, I am far removed from when I have been my liveliest, most productive, most intense, most outgoing and effervescent. In sort, for myself, I am a hard act to follow."
— Kay Redfield Jamison (An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness)
— Kay Redfield Jamison (An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness)
