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  An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (Vintage)

  by Kay R. Jamison, Kay Redfield Jamison

  The personal memoir of a manic depressive and an authority on the subject describes the onset of the illness during her teenage years and her determined journey through the realm of available treatments. Reprint. 125,000 first printing. NYT.
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  Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament

  by Kay R. Jamison, Kay Redfield Jamison

  From the author of the New York Times bestseller, An Unquiet Mind, Touched with Fire is an authoritative look at the relationship between manic-depressive illness and the artistic temperament. Psychiatrist Jamison advocates a restrained, humanistic approach to treatment that does not "cure" the disorder at the expense of artistic inspiration.
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  Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

  by Kay R. Jamison

  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 and forty-five. An internationally acknowledged authority on depressive illnesses, Dr. Jamison has also known... (more)