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Whistle Stopper - An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
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Manufacturer: Vintage
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8950092
EAN: 9780679763307
ISBN: 0679763309
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: 1996-01-14
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: 1997-01-14
Studio: Vintage
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Summary: Unquiet mind
Comment: Brilliant mind and character candidly exposes memoirs; richly sensitive, the unquiet mind brings clarity and treats a difficult subject with competence and affection.
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Summary: Not so impressed
Comment: Not as good as I had heard. A little excessive drama in the descriptive elements of the text. I would have liked more about her feelings and motivations.
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Summary: Just what I needed
Comment: As someone who has only recently been diagnosed, reading this book helped me feel less alone. Because the author so clearly describes her experiences and her feelings about them, it has also helped me better understand which of my symptoms may be attributed to this illness versus other conditions and recognize things that I never thought were out of the norm.
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Summary: A fascinating account. For a remarkably candid book that gives an intimate look into the life of a brilliant PSYCHIATRIST
Comment: I recommend That's How the Light Gets In: Memoir of a Psychiatrist by Susan Rako, M.D. The title comes from a song by Leonard Cohen: "There is a crack, a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." Rako's book is really a fascinating -- and inspiring - read. The writing simply flows.
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Summary: An unquiet mind
Comment: It is a very informative book if you want to understand the personal experience of someone with Bipolar illness.
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Editorial Reviews:
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In Touched with Fire, Kay Redfield Jamison, a psychiatrist, turned a mirror on the creativity so often associated with mental illness. In this book she turns that mirror on herself. With breathtaking honesty she tells of her own manic depression, the bitter costs of her illness, and its paradoxical benefits: "There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness.... It will never end, for madness carves its own reality." This is one of the best scientific autobiographies ever written, a combination of clarity, truth, and insight into human character. "We are all, as Byron put it, differently organized," Jamison writes. "We each move within the restraints of our temperament and live up only partially to its possibilities." Jamison's ability to live fully within her limitations is an inspiration to her fellow mortals, whatever our particular burdens may be. --Mary Ellen Curtin
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