ACCLAIM FOR Kay Redfield Jamison’s
AN UNQUIET MIND

“Written with poetic and moving sensitivity … a rare and insightful view of mental illness from inside the mind of a trained specialist.”

—Time

“Enlightening … eloquent and profound.”

—San Francisco Chronicle

“A riveting portrayal of a courageous brain alternating between exhilarating highs and numbing lows.”

—James D. Watson, Nobel laureate and author of The Double Helix

“In a most intimate and powerful telling, Jamison weaves the personal and professional threads of her life together.… [She] brings us inside the disease and helps us understand manic depression.… What comes through is a remarkably whole person with the grit to defeat her disease.”

—Cleveland Plain Dealer

“A riveting read. I devoured it at a single sitting and found the book almost as compelling on a second read.… An Unquiet Mind may well become a classic.… Jamison sets an example of courage.”

—Howard Gardner, Nature

“Stunning.… I have never read a more exquisite (in both a literary and medical sense) autobiography.… This is an important, wonderful book.”

—Jackson Clarion Ledger

“Piercingly honest.… Jamison’s literary coming-out is a mark of courage.”

—People

“Brave, insightful, richly textured and chillingly authentic.”

—Boston Globe

“Extraordinary.… An Unquiet Mind must be read.”

—The New England Journal of Medicine

“A beautiful, funny, original book. Powerfully written, it is a wonderful and important account of mercurial moods and madness. I absolutely love this book.”

—Pat Conroy, author of The Prince of Tides

“A landmark.… The combination of the intensity of her personal life and the intellectual rigor of her professional experience make the book unique.… A vibrant and engaging account of the life, love, and experience of a woman, a therapist, an academic, and a patient.”

—The British Medical Journal

“Affecting, honest, touching … fluid, felt and often lyrical.”

—Will Self, The Observer (London)

“Quite astonishing … cuts through the dead jargon and detached observations of psychiatric theory and practice to create a fiery, passionate, authentic account of the devastation and exaltation, the blindness and illumination of the psychotic experience.”

—The Sunday Times (London)

“Rises to the poetic and has a mystical touch … a courageous and fascinating book, a moving account of the life of a remarkable woman.”

—The Daily Telegraph (London)

“Fast-paced, startingly honest and frequently lyrical … [Jamison has] a novelist’s openness of phrase and talent for bringing character alive.”

—Scotland on Sunday

“Superbly written.… A compelling work of literature.”

—Independent on Sunday (London)