An
Unquiet Mind: A
Memoir of
Moods and Madness

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The personal memoir of a manic depressive and an authority on
the subject describes the onset of the il lness during her teenage years
and her determined journey through the realm of available treatments.
Reprint. 125,000 first printing.
NYT. In
Touched with Fire, Kay Redfield Jamison, a psychiatrist, turned a mirror on
the creativity so often associated with mental illness. In this book
she turns that mirror on herself. With breathtaking honesty she tells
of her own manic depression, the bitter costs of her illness, and its
paradoxical benefits: "There is a particular kind of pain,
elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness .... It
will never end, for madness carves its own reality." This is one
of the best scientific autobiographies ever written, a combination of
clarity, truth, and insight into human character. "We are all, as
Byron put it, differently organized," Jamison writes. "We
each move within the restraints of our temperament and live up only
partially to its possibilities." Jamison's ability to live fully
within her limitations is an inspiration to her fellow mortals,
whatever our particular burdens may be.
--Mary Ellen Curtin
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