Format:
XIII, 223 S.
Edition:
[Reprint of the 1. Vintage Books ed. 1996 with a new pref. by the author]
ISBN:
0679763309
,
9780679763307
Content:
From Kay Redfield Jamison - an international authority on manic-depressive illness, and one of the few women who are full professors of medicine at American universities - a remarkable personal testimony: the revelation of her own struggle since adolescence with manic-depression, and how it has shaped her life. Vividly, directly, with candor, wit, and simplicity, she takes us into the fascinating and dangerous territory of this form of madness - a world in which one pole can be the alluring dark land ruled by what Byron called the "melancholy star of the imagination," and the other a desert of depression and, all too frequently, death. A moving and exhilarating memoir by a woman whose furious determination to learn the enemy, to use her gifts of intellect to make a difference, led her to become, by the time she was forty, a world authority on manic-depression, and whose work has helped save countless lives
Note:
The wild blue yonder -- A not so fine madness -- This medicine, love -- An unquiet mind.
Language:
English
Keywords:
Manisch-depressive Krankheit
;
Erlebnisbericht
Author information:
Jamison, Kay R.
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