An Unquiet Mind

by

Kay Redfield Jamison

Kay’s Horse

In 1971, as a manic (and in-denial) Kay Redfield Jamison began her doctoral studies in psychology at UCLA, she sought to find a way to weather the increasingly unpredictable cycles of mania and depression which…

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The Planets and the Heavens

Throughout the book, Kay Redfield Jamison makes reference to the sky, the ether, heavenly bodies, and far-off planets as she describes the feelings that the fits of mania she experienced in her late teens and…

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