Book Review

An Unquiet Mind

Kay Redfield Jamison
May 02, 1997
EW's GRADE
A

Details Writer: Kay Redfield Jamison; Genres: Memoir, Self-Help and Psychology

Kay Redfield Jamison, a coauthor of the standard medical text on manic depression, here reveals her own struggles with the disorder. Deeply personal, though never maudlin, Jamison's remarkable memoir, An Unquiet Mind, uses lucid, tight prose to describe her unnerving losses of control, without shying away from the sometime beauty of her illness. A-

Originally posted May 02, 1997 Published in issue #377 May 02, 1997 Order article reprints
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