An Unquiet Mind

Dr Kay Redfield Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive ilness. She has also experienced it firsthand. For even while she was pursuing her career in academic medicine, she was affected by the same exhilarating highs and catastrophic depressions that afflicted many of her patients. An Unquiet Mind is a memoir of enormous candour, courage, wit and wisdom, which examines manic depression from the dual perspectives of the healer and the healed, revealing both its terrors and its cruel allure.