Kay Redfield Jamison, author portrait
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Kay Redfield Jamison

KAY REDFIELD JAMISON is the Dalio Professor in Mood Disorders and a professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, as well as an honorary professor of English at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. She is the coauthor of the standard medical text on bipolar disorder and author of An Unquiet Mind, Night Falls Fast, Exuberance, and Touched with Fire. Her most recent book, Robert Lowell: Setting the River on Fire, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Dr. Jamison is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. She is a recipient of the Lewis Thomas Prize, the Sarnat Prize from the National Academy of Medicine, and a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship.
Fires in the Dark
Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire
Nothing Was the Same
Exuberance
Night Falls Fast
An Unquiet Mind

Kay Redfield Jamison (author of ROBERT LOWELL) | What I'm Reading<br/>papercuts

Books

Fires in the Dark
Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire
Nothing Was the Same
Exuberance
Night Falls Fast
An Unquiet Mind

Media

Kay Redfield Jamison (author of ROBERT LOWELL) | What I'm Reading
papercuts

Mental Illness Awareness Week is October 3 – 9

Millions of people in the U.S. are affected by mental illness each year. It’s important to measure how common mental illness is, so we can understand its physical, social and financial impact — and so we can show that no one is alone. These numbers are also powerful tools for raising public awareness, stigma-busting and advocating for better health care. (National Alliance on Mental Illness)

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