Kay Redfield Jamison's eloquent writing on mental illness has bridged art and medicine, the personal and the professional. An expert on bipolar disorder, Jamison revealed her own struggles with the ...

For Kay Redfield Jamison, healing can come from unexpected places. Her new book “Fires in the Dark: Healing the Unquiet Mind,” which she calls “a kind of love song to psychotherapy,” sprang from the ...

Kay Redfield Jamison has written three books about bipolar disorder: one, a memoir about her own experience with the illness; another exploring the relationship between bipolar disorder and the ...

Kay Redfield Jamison, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, wrote a biography of American poet Robert Lowell that was a finalist in the 2018 Pulitzer Prize category of autobiography or ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Kay Redfield Jamison is a Professor for Psychiatry in the Johns Hopkins University with six videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1998 Forum. The year ...

Madness and artistry have long been firmly held tropes in the arts. Mark Rothko famously painted a black canvas before he committed suicide; Whitney Houston battled mental illness until her death.

A month after becoming an assistant professor of psychiatry at UCLA, Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison was boozed up, cackling, running through the hospital parking lot at 2 a.m., "trying to use up a boundless ...

New Dominion Bookshop will host a book talk and signing with clinical psychologist and author Kay Redfield Jamison on Saturday at 4 p.m. Jamison will be speaking about her recent book, Fires in the ...

Clinical psychologist and author Kay Redfield Jamison will be presented with Rockefeller University's 2012 Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science at a ceremony on June 5, 2013. The award ...

The psychologist and MacArthur Fellow shares her experience as a researcher and patient. The psychologist and MacArthur Fellow shares her experience living with bipolar disorder, and explains factors ...

Redfield Jamison is the author of many books, including The Unquiet Mind, and is a professor of mood disorders and psychiatry at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Her new book is Fires in the Dark: ...

Kay Redfield Jamison, a MacArthur “genius” fellow and an authority on manic depression and mood disorders, has built much of her reputation on explorations of the dark mysteries of the human ...