![]() ![]() ![]() She adored her mother and grew up in a safe, secure home. “Rather like having Mary Poppins for a father” is how his daughter recalls him. Her father was a pilot, a career Air Force officer with wild, fanciful notions and obsessions which delighted his children. She writes, then, from the dual perspectives of the healer and the healed, enduring the same exhilarating highs and suicidal depressions experienced by many of her patients. Not only is she one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive illness but she has experienced it first hand. ![]() Quite clearly, she took an enormous risk in publishing this memoir. Redfield Jamison is Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the United States. And in reviewing it, it is tempting simply to quote huge chunks of the book itself, not only because the writing is lyrical, humourous and exhilarating but because any comment I might have would be merely superfluous.ĭr. I read it twice and was unable to put it down on either occasion since it begs to be absorbed in one sitting. This is, quite simply, the most compelling account of manic depressive illness that I have ever read. ![]() An Unquiet Mind, A Memoir of Moods and Madnessīy Kay Kedfield Jamison, published by Picador, 1997, ISBN 0330 I W3 IZ Price £7.99 stg, paperback. ![]()
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