WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE WRITER

In her bestselling classic, An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison changed the way we think about moods and madness.

Dr. Jamison is one of the foremost regulators on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness; she’s also experienced it firsthand. For even while she was pursuing her profession in academic medication, Jamison present herself succumbing towards the same exhilarating highs and catastrophic depressions that afflicted many of her sufferers, as her disorder released her into ruinous spending sprees, shows of assault, and an attempted suicide.

Here Jamison examines bipolar illness through the dual perspectives of the healer as well as the healed, revealing both its terrors as well as the cruel allure that sometimes prompted her to resist taking medication. An Unquiet Brain is usually a memoir of tremendous candor, vividness, and wisdom-a deeply effective book which has both transformed and saved lives.