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Synopsis
With this memoir, Jamison, a psychiatrist and pioneer in the field of mood research, revealed her own struggle with manic-depressive, or bipolar, illness. Interspersing humorous descriptions of the strange logic that permeated her manic episodes with haunting recollections of the depressions that would follow, she chronicles her professional journey to understand the biological basics for mood disorders while she was fighting--and hiding--her own.
| Size | | Height: | 8.5 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 13.6 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "When it's two o'clock in the morning, and you're manic, even the UCLA Medical Center has a certain appeal."
Industry Reviews
"Fiery, passionate, authentic...a painfully raw, stark, and compulsive account."
Sunday Times (London) - Anthony Clare
"Jamison's drive to study and record her condition is helping others to contend with her disease. She is, by force of her own will, both scribe and conqueror of a crippling illness."
Washington Post Book World - Marie Arana-Ward (08/18/1996)
"The sensuous language of Jamison's book is a brave attempt to stay true to her experience: Her refusal to submit her life to the flat and sober terminology of the clinic, her insistence on the continuity of her ultimate theme of all autobiography since courageous and convincing."
Civilization - David Samuels
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