Kay Redfield Jamison's eloquent writing on mental illness has bridged art and medicine, the personal and the professional. An expert on bipolar disorder, Jamison revealed her own struggles with the ...

Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison believes that medication is an overused option and that many people can make great strides recovering from “mental suffering” using therapy, art, and meaningful hobbies. She ...

Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, best-selling author of numerous critically acclaimed books, including “An Unquiet Mind” and “Touched with Fire,” will be giving an audience at UCLA a look at her latest book, ...

Kay Redfield Jamison has written three books about bipolar disorder: one, a memoir about her own experience with the illness; another exploring the relationship between bipolar disorder and the ...

Kay Redfield Jamison’s “Fires in the Dark” is not a book for the lazy or the linear-minded. It is a cultural history of mental healing and healers, impressively researched and broad in scope. It is ...

The psychologist and MacArthur Fellow shares her experience as a researcher and patient. The psychologist and MacArthur Fellow shares her experience living with bipolar disorder, and explains factors ...

For Kay Redfield Jamison, healing can come from unexpected places. Her new book “Fires in the Dark: Healing the Unquiet Mind,” which she calls “a kind of love song to psychotherapy,” sprang from the ...

Clinical psychologist and author Kay Redfield Jamison will be presented with Rockefeller University's 2012 Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science at a ceremony on June 5, 2013. The award ...

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A month after becoming an assistant professor of psychiatry at UCLA, Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison was boozed up, cackling, running through the hospital parking lot at 2 a.m., "trying to use up a boundless ...

Americans have a perverse relationship with exuberance. The spirit of industriousness, inventiveness, and Manifest Destiny upon which this country was built (and continues to sprawl) requires a sense ...