The author of the national bestseller Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide, Jamison co-authored the standard medical textbook on manic depression, Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression and is the author of Exuberance: The Passion for Life.Ī finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography, her 2017 book, Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character is a “psychological account” of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Robert Lowell and his remarkable ability to write amid manic episodes. Jamison explored her own struggle with manic depression in a 1995 Washington Post article and subsequent New York Times bestseller, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness, which according to Oliver Sacks, “stands alone in the literature of manic depression for its bravery, brilliance, and beauty.” Named a “Hero of Medicine" by TIME, she has unique insight into the world of mental illness.ĭr. Professor of Psychiatry at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Jamison is an international authority and researcher on mood disorders. Co-director of the Johns Hopkins Mood Disorders Center and author of Night Falls Fast and Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire, Jamison addresses the realities of depression and bipolar disorder, encouraging dialogue, empathy and hope. Jamison went public with her own struggle with manic depression in her book An Unquiet Mind. An international authority on mood disorders and suicide, Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison giving the talk “An Unquiet Mind: Understanding Depression, Bipolar Illness and suicide” on Thursday, October 11 in UCSB Campbell Hall at 7:30 pm. UC Santa Barbara’s Arts & Lectures presents Dr.
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