For years Kay Redfield Jamison, a professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the author of the memoir, An Unquiet Mind, suffered from bipolar disorder in secret. She suffered her first episode at seventeen, and refused treatment until her severe mood swings developed into full psychosis, a full decade later. The memoir is Kay Jamison’s first person account of her battle with her illness: the pleasure her manic highs gave her, the miserable depressions, and her
Summary An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison is a gripping memoir of Jamison’s transition to mania. The book begins with the dynamics of Jamison’s family. Jamison is the middle child of a military meteorologist and a teacher. Throughout grade school she marks shifting moods of her family members and the effects. Jamison compares herself to her overachieving big brother and rebellious younger sister, who faced some inner demons. Her younger sister is deeply affected by change and rigorous
Sean Noble #2457049 Psych 350 Stephen Ilardi 12/15/14 (TITLE) (INTRO) Kay Redfield Jamison, author of An Unquiet Mind, spent most of her teenage years progressing deep down a dangerous path, a path she had unknowingly been traveling her entire life. Kay Jamison started her life, like many of us do, as an “intensely emotional child” (Jamison, 4-5). The intensity then began to increase in proportion to the increase in age. Jamison says how her temperament became more “mercurial as a young girl”