Kay Redfield Jamison
Kay Redfield Jamison (born June 22, 1946 ) is an American psychologist, psychiatry professor and author of several books on the bipolar disorder from which she suffers.
Live and act
Jamison teaches psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and is an Honorary Professor of English at St Andrews University . Jamison received his PhD in Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles and was nominated for the title of Best Doctors in the United States . Time magazine named her Hero of Medicine .
In her works she often deals with the subject of suicide . She herself attempted suicide at the age of 28 by trying to poison herself with a lithium overdose .
Her main work Manic Depressive Illness , which she wrote with Frederick K. Goodwin , is considered to be the basic work on this mental disorder.
In My Restless Soul , she describes her own career and personal handling of bipolar disorder.
Kay Redfield Jamison is the patroness of the German homepage BipolArt , which publishes creative works of mentally ill people in order to fight against the discrimination of these people.
In 2001 she was a MacArthur Fellow . In 2013 she received the Lewis Thomas Prize and in 2015 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
Fonts (selection)
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An Unquiet Mind . Vintage Books, New York 1995, ISBN 0-679-76330-9 ( autobiography ).
- My restless soul. The story of manic depression . Goldmann-Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-442-15030-2 .
- Manic-Depressive Illness . OUP, New York 1990, ISBN 0-19-503934-3 (together with Frederick K. Goodwin).
- Touched with Fire. Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament . Free Press, New York 1993 ISBN 0-684-83183-X (with a study on George Gordon Byron ).
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Night Falls Fast. Understanding Suicide . Vintage Books, New York 1999, ISBN 0-375-70147-8 .
- When it gets dark. To understand suicide . BTV, Berliner Taschenbuch Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-8333-0232-1 .
- Exuberance. The Passion for Life . 4th ed. Knopf, New York 200, ISBN 0-375-40144-X (EA New York 2004).
literature
- Jamison, Kay Redfield. June 22, 1946 - psychologist, educator, writer . In: Current biography yearbook , Vol. 70 (2009), pp. 242–246.
- Roberta Conlan u. a .: States of mind. New discoveries about how our brains make us who we are; adapted from the original talks by J. Allan Hobson, Jerome Kagan, Joseph LeDoux, Kay Redfield Jamison, Steven Hyman, Eric Kandel, Bruce McEwen, Edther Sternberg . John Wiley Books, New York 1999, ISBN 0-471-29963-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Kay Redfield Jamison in the catalog of the German National Library
- Interview with Kay Jamison on the Charlie Rose Show , video (17 minutes)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Redfield Jamison, Kay |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American psychologist, psychiatry professor, author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 22, 1946 |