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Summary: "The acclaimed author of The Unquiet Mind considers the age-old quest for relief from psychic pain and the role of the gifted healer in the journey back to health. "To treat, even to cure, is not always to heal." In this expansive cultural history of the treatment and healing of suffering, Kay Jamison writes about what makes an effective healer, and the role of imagination and memory in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.89 JAMJamison, Kay R.
Summary: The personal story of a manic depressive and an authority on the subject describes the onset of the illness during her teenage years and her determined journey through the realm of available treatments.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1995
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 616.89 JAMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JAMISON, KAY R JAMJamison, Kay R.
Summary: Explores the role of exuberance in humankind's most important creative and scientific accomplishments, discussing the nature of exuberance and its relationship to intellectual curiosity, creativity, risk-taking, and survival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152.42 JAMJamison, Kay R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8584 JAMJamison, Kay R.
Summary: "The best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind now gives us a groundbreaking life of one of the major American poets of the twentieth century that is at the same time a fascinating study of the relationship between manic-depressive (bipolar) illness, creative genius, and character. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry, Robert Lowell (1917-1977) put his manic-depressive illness into the public...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LOWELL, ROBERT JAMJamison, Kay R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.895 JAMSummary: The documentary uses Graham Greene's own words from his books and recordings, as well as photographs and clips from his many films, to reveal the fascinating life of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. The cast includes John Le Carre, psychologist Kay Jamison, critic David Lodge, Time correspondent Bernard Diederich, former CIA Inspector General Fredrick Hitz, and Greene's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2013