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Exuberance: The Passion For LifeISBN 0375701486 (0-375-70148-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Exuberance: The Passion for Life'Book summary:With the same grace and breadth of learning she brought to her studies of the minds pathologies, Kay Redfield Jamison examines one of its most exalted states: exuberance. This abounding, ebullient, effervescent emotion manifests itself everywhere from childs play to scientific breakthrough and is crucially important to learning, risk-taking, social cohesiveness, and survival itself. Exuberance: The Passion for Life introduces us to such notably irrepressible types as Teddy Roosevelt, John Muir, and Richard Feynman, as well as Peter Pan, dancing porcupines, and Charles Schulzs Snoopy. It explores whether exuberance can be inherited, parses its neurochemical grammar, and documents the methods people have used to stimulate it. The resulting book is an irresistible fusion of science and soul. [via]
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Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depressionby Kay Redfield Jamison , Frederick K. GoodwinISBN 0195135792 (0-19-513579-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression'Book summary:The revolution in psychiatry that began mid-century has led to dramatic advances in the understanding and treatment of manic-depressive illness. No other mental disorder has been the subject of such clinically useful and scientifically productive research. This book is the first to survey this massive body of evidence comprehensively and to assess its meaning for both clinician and scientist. It also vividly portrays the experience of manic-depressive illness from the perspective of patients, their doctors, and researchers, and recounts the torments of some of the great poets and composers whose art was almost certainly enriched, energized, and deepened by the extremes of manic-depressive illness.
Drawing on the wisdom of classic psychiatric authors, the book encompasses knowledge about manic-depressive illness as Kraepelin originally defined it. Drs. Goodwin and Jamison's understanding of the illness, gained from their own extensive research and clinical experience, guided their interpretation of the literature. Like Kraepelin, they emphasize the cyclical course of manic-depressive illness and the essential unity of its bipolar and recurrent unipolar forms. Encyclopedic in scope, this volume exhaustively reviews the biological and genetic literature that has dominated the field in recent years. It also surveys the psychological and epidemiological evidence, as well as that pertaining to diagnostic issues, course, and outcome. The authors offer practical guidelines for differential diagnosis and clinical management. The medical treatment of manic and depressive episodes is described, strategies for preventing future episodes are given in detail, and psychotherapeutic issues common in this illness are considered. Special emphasis is given to fostering compliance with medication regimens and treating bipolar patients who abuse drugs and alcohol or who pose a risk of suicide. This book, the product of a decade of work, will be a valuable addition to the libraries of psychiatrists and other physicians, psychologists, clinical social workers, neuroscientists, pharmacologists, and the patients and families who live with manic-depressive illness. [via]More editions of Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression:
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Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression Volume 1 Glaxo Smith Kline Editionby Frederick Goodwin, Kay Redfield JamisonISBN 0195331532 (0-19-533153-2)
Softcover, Oxford University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression Volume 1 Glaxo Smith Kline Edition'Book summary:The revolution in psychiatry that began in the 1950s led to dramatic advances in the understanding and treatment of manic-depressive illness, also known as bipolar disorder. No other mental illness has been the subject of such extensive, clinically useful, and scientifically productive research. Hailed as the most outstanding book in the biomedical sciences when it was originally published in 1990, Manic-Depressive Illness was the first to survey this massive body of evidence comprehensively and to assess its meaning for both clinician and scientist. It also vividly portrayed the experience of manic-depressive illness from the perspective of patients, their doctors, and researchers. In this magisterial second edition, Drs. Frederick Goodwin and Kay Redfield Jamison, with the assistance of a select team of other leading scientists in the field, exhaustively review the biological and genetic literature that has dominated the field in recent years and incorporate cutting-edge research conducted since publication of the first edition. They also update their surveys of psychological and epidemiological evidence, as well as that pertaining to diagnostic issues, course, and outcome, and they offer practical guidelines for differential diagnosis and clinical management. The medical treatment of manic and depressive episodes is described, strategies for preventing future episodes are given in detail, and psychotherapeutic issues common in this illness are considered. Special emphasis is given to fostering compliance with medication regimens and treating bipolar patients who abuse drugs and alcohol or who pose a risk of suicide. This is Volume I of the book's newly updated and expanded form. It will be a valuable and necessary addition to the libraries of psychiatrists and other physicians, psychologists, clinical social workers, neuroscientists, pharmacologists, and the patients and families who live with manic-depressive illness. [via]
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Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression Volume 2 Glaxo Smith Kline Editionby Frederick Goodwin, Kay Redfield JamisonISBN 0195331524 (0-19-533152-4)
Softcover, Oxford University Press
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Night Falls Fast : Understanding Suicideby Kay Redfield JamisonISBN 0330481789 (0-330-48178-9)
Hardcover, Pan Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Night Falls Fast : Understanding Suicide'Book summary:Suicide is the third major killer of young people in the Western world, and in the closing decades of the twentieth century it reached epidemic proportions: around the world there has been a frightening surge in suicides committed by children, adolescents and young adults. Kay Redfield Jamison is herself a survivor of a nearly lethal suicide attempt which came after years of battling manic depression. Her survival marked the beginning of a life's work to investigate mental illness and self-inflicted death, and she is now an internationally recognized authority on the depressive illnesses. In "Night Falls Fast" Dr. Jamison dispels the silence and shame that surround the subject of suicide and provides a better understanding of the suicidal mind and a chance to recognize the person at risk. She brings to the book not only wide scientific knowledge and clinical experience but also great compassion. In tracing the network of reasons underlying the phenomenon, she gives us astonishing examples and a startling look at the journals, drawings and farewell notes of people who have chosen to kill themselves. She also provides vivid insight into the most recent findings from hospitals and laboratories across the world; the critical biological and psychological factors that interact to cause suicide; and the new strategies being evolved to combat them. "Night Falls Fast" is a sensitive and penetrating analysis that helps us to comprehend the profound and disturbing sense of loss created in those left behind. It is the first major book on the subject in a quarter of a century and stands to become a classic account of one of the most devastating and destructive causes of death of our time. 'An important, moving and informative book' - "Guardian". 'For anyone in any way connected with a potential suicide this book is essential reading: that means all of us' - "The Times". 'This is a lyrical, beautifully argued, deep and deeply troubling book' - "Evening Standard". 'A profound and impassioned book which will stand as the authoritative study of suicide for many years' - William Styron. [via]
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Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicideby Kay Redfield JamisonISBN 0375701478 (0-375-70147-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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States of Mind: New Discoveries About How Our Brains Make Us Who We Areby Kay Redfield Jamison , Jerome Kagan, Joseph Ledoux, Steven Hyman, Eric Kandel, Esther Sternberg, Bruce McEwen, J. Allan Hobson, Roberta ConlanISBN 0471299634 (0-471-29963-4)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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States of Mind: New Discoveries About How Our Brains Make Us Who We Areby Kay Redfield Jamison , Jerome Kagan, Joseph Ledoux, Steven Hyman, Eric Kandel, Esther Sternberg, Bruce McEwen, J. Allan Hobson, Roberta ConlanISBN 0471399736 (0-471-39973-6)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Touched With Fire: Manic Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperamentby Kay Redfield JamisonISBN 0029160030 (0-02-916003-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Touched With Fire: Manic Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament'Book summary:The march of science in explaining human nature continues. In Touched With Fire, Jamison marshals a tremendous amount of evidence for the proposition that most artistic geniuses were (and are) manic depressives. This is a book of interest to scientists, psychologists, and artists struggling with the age-old question of whether psychological suffering is an essential component of artistic creativity. Anyone reading this book closely will be forced to conclude that it is. Very Highly Recommended. [via]
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An Unquiet Mind : A Memoir of Moods and Madnessby Kay Redfield JamisonISBN 0330346512 (0-330-34651-2)
Hardcover, Pan Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Unquiet Mind : A Memoir of Moods and Madness'Book summary:In Touched with Fire, Kay Redfield Jamison, a psychiatrist, turned a mirror on the creativity so often associated with mental illness. In this book she turns that mirror on herself. With breathtaking honesty she tells of her own manic depression, the bitter costs of her illness, and its paradoxical benefits: "There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness.... It will never end, for madness carves its own reality." This is one of the best scientific autobiographies ever written, a combination of clarity, truth, and insight into human character. "We are all, as Byron put it, differently organized," Jamison writes. "We each move within the restraints of our temperament and live up only partially to its possibilities." Jamison's ability to live fully within her limitations is an inspiration to her fellow mortals, whatever our particular burdens may be. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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An Unquiet Mindby Kay Redfield JamisonISBN 0679443746 (0-679-44374-6)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Unquiet Mind'Book summary:From Kay Redfield Jamison - an international authority on manic-depressive illness, and one of the few women who are full professors of medicine at American Universities - a remarkable personal testimony: the revelation of her own struggle since adolescence with manic depression, and how it shaped her life. With vivid prose and wit, she takes us into the fascinating and dangerous territory of this form of madness - a world in which one pole can be the alluring dark land ruled by what Byron called the "melancholy star of the imagination," and the other a desert of depression and, all too frequently, death. [via]
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The Years of Silence Are Past: My Father's Life With Bi-Polar Disorderby Kay Redfield JamisonISBN 0521817803 (0-521-81780-3)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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