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Kay Redfield Jamison

Autor(a) de An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

20+ Works 7,386 Membros 98 Reviews 22 Favorited

About the Author

Clinical psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison was born on June 22, 1946. She received a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is considered one of the foremost experts on bipolar disorder, which she has had since her early adulthood. She is Professor of Psychiatry mostrar mais at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a Honorary Professor of English at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. She is the author of numerous books including An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness; Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide; and Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras de Kay Redfield Jamison

Nothing Was the Same: A Memoir (2009) 272 cópias
Manic-Depressive Illness (1990) 96 cópias
Erken Coken Karanlik (2010) 2 cópias
Bipolar: Una mente inquieta (2022) 1 exemplar(es)

Associated Works

Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression (2001) — Introdução — 490 cópias
A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology (2002) — Contribuinte — 82 cópias

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome de batismo
Redfield Jamison, Kay
Data de nascimento
1946-06-22
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA
Educação
University of California, Los Angeles
Ocupação
clinical psychologist
professor
autobiographer
producer
screenwriter
Organizações
University of California, Los Angeles
Johns Hopkins University
National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research
Premiações
MacArthur Fellowship (2001)
Pequena biografia
In addition to her academic works, Prof. Jamison chronicled her own struggle with bipolar disorder (severe mania and depression) in her 1995 memoir An Unquiet Mind.

Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the co-author of the definitive medical text Manic-Depressive Illness.   Dr. Jamison is a member of the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research.  She is also the executive producer and writer for a series of award-winning public television specials about manic-depressive illness and the arts.   [from Touched with Fire (1993)]

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“Um livro que representa um interface entre a Medicina e as ciências humanas e que consegue um bom equilíbrio entre o aspecto científico e artístico”
José Manuel Jara, Médico Psiquiatra e Presidente da Assembleia Geral e do Conselho Científico da ADEB

Kay Redfield Jameson, também autora do livro "Uma Mente Inquieta", considerada uma das maiores especialistas norte-americanas em desordem bipolar.
 
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GladsMari | Mar 2, 2024 |

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Obras
20
Also by
3
Membros
7,386
Popularidade
#3,307
Avaliação
3.9
Resenhas
98
ISBNs
92
Idiomas
14
Favorito
22

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