Andrews in Scotland.įormerly the director of the UCLA Affective Disorders Clinic, Dr. She also studied zoology and neurophysiology at the University of St. Kennedy Scholar, United States Public Health Service Pre-doctoral Research Fellow, and UCLA Graduate Woman of the Year.
Jamison did her undergraduate and doctoral studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was a National Science Foundation Research Fellow, University of California Cook Scholar, John F. Written from deep inside the experience itself, the book will be released fall 2009.ĭr. Her newest memoir, Nothing Was the Same, is a haunting meditation on mortality, grief, and loss as Jamison looks back at her relationship with her husband, Richard, who passed away from cancer. Jamison’s book, Exuberance: The Passion for Life, was selected by The Washington Post, The Seattle Times, and The San Francisco Chronicle as one of the best books of 2004 and by Discover magazine as one of the best science books of the year. Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide also was a national bestseller, translated into 15 languages, and selected by The New York Times as a Notable Book of 1999. It was on The New York Times bestsellers list for more than five months and has been translated into 20 languages. Her best-sellling books include Touched with Fire, An Unquiet Mind, Night Falls Fast, and Exuberance, and Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression. She also is the co-author of the standard medical text on manic-depressive illness, which was chosen in 1990 as the “Most Outstanding Book in Biomedical Sciences” by the American Association of Publishers.Īn Unquiet Mind, her memoir about her experiences with manic-depressive illness, was cited by several major publications as one of the best books of 1995.
She is also Honorary Professor of English at the University of St. Kay Redfield Jamison is a Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Mood Disorders Center.
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