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Product Description: The revolution in psychiatry that began mid-century has led to dramatic advances in the understanding and treatment of manic-depressive illness. No other mental disorder has been the subject of such clinically useful and scientifically productive research...read more
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9780195039344 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 1990, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: The revolution in psychiatry that began mid-century has led to dramatic advances in the understanding and treatment of manic-depressive illness.

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Product Description: The anguished and volatile intensity associated with the artistic temperament was once thought to be a symptom of genius or eccentricity peculiar to artists, writers and musicians. Kay Jamison's work, based on her study as a clinical psychologist and researcher in mood disorders, reveals that many artists subject to exalted highs and despairing lows were in fact engaged in a struggle with clinically identifiable manic-depressive illness...read more
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9780029160305 | Free Pr, January 1, 1993, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: An analysis of the link between manic-depressive illness and artistic temperament focuses on the medical histories of some creative geniuses

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9780684831831, titled "Touched With Fire: Manic Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament" | Reissue edition (Free Pr, October 18, 1996), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The anguished and volatile intensity associated with the artistic temperament was once thought to be a symptom of genius or eccentricity peculiar to artists, writers and musicians.
9780029160039 | Free Pr, September 1, 1994, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: An analysis of the link between manic-depressive illness and artistic temperament focuses on the medical histories of some creative geniuses

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The personal memoir 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. Reprint. 125,000 first printing. NYT.
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9780679443742 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1995, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: 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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9780679763307 | Vintage Books, January 1, 1997, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: 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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9780679447764 | Random House, September 1, 1995, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: The personal story of a manic depressive and authority on the subject describes the onset of the illness during her teenage years, and her determined journey through the range of available treatments.

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Miscellaneous:

9781439106631 | Free Pr, October 18, 1996, cover price $12.99

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9789990221695 | Random House Inc, January 30, 1997, cover price $0.02

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Product Description: Kay Redfield revela que muchos artistas que fueron victimas de grandes alteraciones del humor, entre la exaltacion y la melancolia, en realidad lucharon toda su vida contra la enfermedad maniaco-depresiva. La autora presenta una vision sobre la neurobiologia de dicha enfermedad, y aplica estos conocimientos en la investigacion que realizo sobre las biografias de Lord Byron, Van Gogh, Shelley, Poe, Melville, Schumann y Virginia Woolf, entre otros...read more
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9789681653255 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, December 31, 1998, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Kay Redfield revela que muchos artistas que fueron victimas de grandes alteraciones del humor, entre la exaltacion y la melancolia, en realidad lucharon toda su vida contra la enfermedad maniaco-depresiva.

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From the best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind comes an incisive study of the growing epidemic of suicide among young people, drawing on the author's firsthand battle with severe manic-depression and attempted suicide to reveal the psychological, medical, and biological aspects of self-inflicted death. Reprint. 75,000 first printing. (view table of contents)
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9780375401459 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 1, 1999), cover price $26.00 | About this edition: A study of the growing epidemic of suicide among young people draws on the author's firsthand battle with severe manic-depression and attempted suicide to reveal the psychological, medical, and biological aspects of self-inflicted death
9780756765590 | Diane Pub Co, March 1, 1999, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Amazon.

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9780375701474 | Vintage Books, October 1, 2000, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A study of the growing epidemic of suicide among young people draws on the author's firsthand battle with severe manic-depression and attempted suicide to reveal the psychological, medical, and biological aspects of self-inflicted death.

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9788472239623 | Tusquets Editor, January 1, 2002, cover price $24.50

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Uses photographs and first person accounts edited from interviews with family members to profile forty-four families in which at least one member has been diagnosed with a psychiatric illness.
By Jean J. Beard, Duckworth (introduced by), Peggy Gillespie, Kay Redfield Jamison (foreword by) and Gigi Kaeser (photographer)
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9781565847217 | New Pr, October 1, 2002, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Uses photographs and first person accounts edited from interviews with family members to profile forty-four families in which at least one member has been diagnosed with a psychiatric illness.

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9781565847866 | New Pr, October 1, 2002, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Uses photographs and first person accounts edited from interviews with family members to profile forty-four families in which at least one member has been diagnosed with a psychiatric illness.

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An international expert in the field of mood disorders and best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind 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. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.
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9780375401442 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 15, 2004, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: 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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9780375701481 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, September 1, 2005), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Explores the role of exuberance in humankind's most important creative and scientific accomplishments, discussing the nature of joy and its relationship to intellectual curiosity, creativity, risk-taking, and survival.

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9780739316818 | Abridged edition (Random House, September 28, 2004), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The author of the bestselling An Unquiet Mind–and internationally renowned authority on mood disorders–now gives us something wonderfully different: an exploration of exuberance and how it fuels our most important creative and scientific achievements.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780739316801 | Abridged edition (Random House, September 28, 2004), cover price $25.95

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Product Description: The revolution in psychiatry that began in earnest in the 1960s led to dramatic advances in the understanding and treatment of manic-depressive illness. Hailed as the most outstanding book in the biomedical sciences when it was originally published in 1990, Manic-Depressive Illness was the first to survey this massive body of evidence comprehensively and to assess its meaning for both clinician and scientist...read more
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9780195135794 | 2 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, March 22, 2007), cover price $115.00 | About this edition: The revolution in psychiatry that began in earnest in the 1960s led to dramatic advances in the understanding and treatment of manic-depressive illness.

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The author shares the story of his twenty-five-year struggle with depression, presenting a cultural analysis of how mental illness is perceived and perpetuated within African American communities.
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9780767913539 | Broadway Books, August 1, 2004, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The author shares the story of his twenty-five-year struggle with depression, presenting a cultural analysis of how mental illness is perceived and perpetuated within African American communities.

Miscellaneous:

9780307419309 | Crown Pub, December 18, 2007, cover price $22.95

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Product Description: From the internationally acclaimed author of An Unquiet Mind, an exquisite, haunting meditation on mortality, grief, and loss.Perhaps no one but Kay Redfield Jamison—who combines the acute perceptions of a psychologist with a writerly elegance and passion—could bring such a delicate touch to the subject of losing a spouse to cancer...read more
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9780307265371 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 15, 2009, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: From the internationally acclaimed author of An Unquiet Mind, an exquisite, haunting meditation on mortality, grief, and loss.

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