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From the author of the best-selling memoir An Unquiet Mind, comes the first major book in a quarter century on suicide, and its terrible pull on the young in particular. Night Falls Fast is tragically timely: suicide has become one of the most common killers of Americans between the ages of fifteen ... More

In this magisterial study of the relationship between illness and art, the best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison, brings an entirely fresh understanding to the work and life of Robert Lowell (1917-1977), whose intense, complex, and personal verse left a lasting mark on the Eng... More

The anguished, volatile intensity we associate with the artistic temperament, often described as "a fine madness," has been thought of as a defining aspect of much artistic genius. Now, Kay Jamison's brilliant work, based on years of studies as a clinical psychologist and prominent researcher in moo... More

Psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison explores and discusses exuberance and other positive moods and emotions.... More

From the internationally acclaimed author of An Unquiet Mind, comes a haunting meditation on mortality, grief, and loss. Perhaps no one but Kay Jamison - who combines the acute perceptions of a psychologist with writerly elegance and passion - could bring such a delicate touch to the subject of losi... More

From the author of the best-selling memoir An Unquiet Mind, comes the first major book in a quarter century on suicide, and its terrible pull on the young in particular. Night Falls Fast is tragically timely: suicide has become one of the most common killers of Americans between the ages of fifteen ... More

WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR <P><P>In her bestselling classic, An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison changed the way we think about moods and madness. <P><P>Dr. Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness; she has also experienced it firsthand. For even whi... More

With the same grace and breadth of learning she brought to her studies of the mind's pathologies, Kay Redfield Jamison examines one of its most exalted states: exuberance. This "abounding, ebullient, effervescent emotion" manifests itself everywhere from child's play to scientific breakthrough and... More

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