Nothing Was the Same

Written by Kay Redfield Jamison

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26537-1 (0-307-26537-4)

From the internationally acclaimed author of An Unquiet Mind, an exquisite, haunting meditation on mortality, grief, and loss.

Perhaps no one but Kay Redfield Jamison—who combines the acute perceptions of a psychologist with a writerly elegance and passion—could bring such a delicate touch to the subject of losing a spouse to cancer... Read more >

Exuberance
The Passion for Life
Written by Kay Redfield Jamison

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70148-1 (0-375-70148-6)

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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 is crucially important to learning, risk-taking... Read more >

Exuberance
The Passion for Life
Written by Kay Redfield Jamison

Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 21, 2004
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-40144-2 (0-375-40144-X)

The author of the bestselling An Unquiet Mind—and internationally renowned authority on mood disorders—now gives us something wonderfully different: an exploration of exuberance and how it fuels our most important creative and scientific achievements.

John Muir’s lifelong passion to save America’s wild places, Wilson Bentley’s legendary obsession to record for posterity the... Read more >

Night Falls Fast
Understanding Suicide
Written by Kay Redfield Jamison

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 10, 2000
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70147-4 (0-375-70147-8)

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 suicide firsthand: after years of struggling with manic-depression, she tried at age twenty-eight to kill herself... Read more >

An Unquiet Mind
A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Written by Kay Redfield Jamison

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 14, 1997
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-76330-7 (0-679-76330-9)

Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison--clinical psychologist, Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and an international authority of manic-depressive illness--offers a remarkable personal testimony: the revelation of her own struggle since adolescence with manic-depression, and how it has shaped her life. Dr. Jamison suffered her first attack of... Read more >

An Unquiet Mind

Written by Kay Redfield Jamison

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 5, 1995
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-44374-2 (0-679-44374-6)

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