Kay Redfield Jamison

Kay Redfield Jamison is professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is co-director of the Johns Hopkins Mood Disorders Center, and a member of the governing board of the national Network of Depression Centers. Dr Jamison is also honorary professor of English at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. She is the author of the U.S. bestsellers An Unquiet Mind and Night Falls Fast, as well as of Touched with Fire and Exuberance. She is the co-author of the standard medical text on bipolar illness, Manic-­Depressive Illness: bipolar disorders and recurrent depression, and author or co-author of more than a hundred scientific papers about mood disorders, creativity, and psycho­pharmacology. Dr Jamison is the recipient of numerous national and international scientific awards, as well as a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship.

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