As a founder of UCLA's Affective Disorder Clinic and a co-author of a standard medical text, Dr. Kay Redfield
Jamison may be the foremost authority on manic-depressive illness. She is also one of its survivors. And it is
this dual perspective -- as healer and healed -- that makes Jamison's memoir so lucid, learned, and profoundly
affecting.
Even as she was pursuing her psychiatric training, Jamison found herself succumbing to the exhilarating highs and
paralyzing lows that afflicted many of her patients. Though the disorder brought her seemingly boundless energy
and mercurial creativity, it also propelled her into spending sprees, episodes of violence, and an attempt at suicide.
Powerfully candid, exceptionally wise, An Unquiet Mind is one of those rare books that has the power to
transform lives -- and even save them.