In her book An Unquiet Mind, Kay Jamison describes the benefits of both modes of treatment for even a serious illness—in her case, bipolar disorder. Lithium treatment for the disorder prevented her disastrous highs, kept her out of the hospital, saved her life by preventing her from committing suicide, and made long-term psychotherapy possible. “But, ineffably,” she writes, “psychotherapy heals. It makes some sense of the confusion, reins in the terrifying thoughts and feelings, returns some control and hope and possibility of learning from it all. Pills cannot, do not, ease one back into
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