![]() ![]() When her family moves to California, her family life deteriorates with her father becoming more prone to depressive episodes and her mother busy pursuing professional goals. In her adolescence she showed an interest in science and medicine which later switched to psychology. Her father was creative and charismatic and her mother kind and yet resourceful. She recalls having a very happy childhood, and a supportive family. Jamison describes her childhood and early life as part of a military family and the effects that had on her life, including a very conservative upbringing and the need to make new friends after every relocation. in New York and reprinted by Vintage Books in paperback in 1997. The book was originally published in hardcover by Alfred A. Narrated in the first person, the book shows the effect of manic-depressive illness in family and romantic relationships, professional life, and self-awareness, and highlights both the detrimental effects of the illness and the few positive ones. The book details Jamison's experience with bipolar disorder and how it affected her in various areas of her life from childhood up until the writing of the book. 1995 memoir by Kay Redfield Jamison An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madnessĪn Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness is a memoir written by American clinical psychologist and bipolar disorder researcher Kay Redfield Jamison and published in 1995. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |