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Kay Redfield Jamison
Professor of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Kay Redfield Jamison is a Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where she also do-directs the Mood Center. Once a manic depressive herself, she is now a prominent expert on mental health, suicide, and creativity.
Her books include Touched With Fire: Manic Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament; An Unquiet Mind; Exuberance: A Passion For Life; and Nothing Was The Same.
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Big Think sits with the Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University and author of “Nothing Was the Same.”
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The author and professor of psychiatry, discusses the idea of death and her fear of ‘frittering away time.’
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The classic understanding of suicide casts it as reactionary measure against a particular event or outcome, but Kay Redfield Jamison argues that it is typically the result of the prolonged […]
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After waking up from a coma after a suicide attempt, Kay Redfield Jamison realized that medication was her only remaining choice.
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What happens when life loses any semblance of stability and one is subject to waves of cosmic and sometimes terrifying hallucinations? For Kay Redfield Jamison, a clinically bipolar professor of […]
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Kay Jamison explains her willingness to discuss her husband’s last years, and how she was helped through her own grief by the work of other writers.