Kay Redfield Jamison



Kay Redfield Jamison

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born June 22, 1946
gender female
place of birth United States
genre 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.

books by Kay Redfield Jamison

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avg rating: 3.93 | 2191 ratings | 8 distinct works
Touched with Fire: Manic-Depre... Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament (Paperback)
by Kay Redfield Jamison
avg rating 3.84 — 320 ratings — published 1996
4 editions
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Night Falls Fast: Understandin... Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide (Paperback)
by Kay Redfield Jamison
avg rating 3.94 — 193 ratings — published 2000
7 editions
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An Unquiet Mind An Unquiet Mind (Paperback)
by Kay Redfield Jamison
avg rating 4.01 — 108 ratings — published 1997
11 editions
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Exuberance: The Passion for Li... Exuberance: The Passion for Life (Paperback)
by Kay Redfield Jamison
avg rating 3.69 — 65 ratings — published 2005
4 editions
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Manic-Depressive Illness Manic-Depressive Illness (Hardcover)
by Frederick K. Goodwin, Kay Redfield Jamison
avg rating 3.89 — 9 ratings — published 2007
2 editions
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Understanding Depression: What... Understanding Depression: What We Know and What You Can Do About It (Hardcover)
by J. Raymond DePaulo, Leslie Alan Horvitz, Kay Redfield Jamison
avg rating 3.33 — 3 ratings — published 2002
2 editions
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Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipo... Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression, Volume II (2)
by Frederick K. Goodwin, Kay Redfield Jamison
avg rating 4.00 — 1 ratings — published 2007
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Manic-Depressive Illness Bipol... Manic-Depressive Illness Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression Volume I, (Volume I)
by Frederick K. Goodwin, Kay Redfield Jamison
avg rating 0.00 — 0 ratings — published 2007
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quotes by Kay Redfield Jamison

"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)
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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)
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