Kay Redfield Jamison

Kay Redfield Jamison (born June 22, 1946) is an American clinical psychologist and writer. Her work has centered on bipolar disorder, which she has had since her early adulthood. She holds the post of the Dalio Professor in Mood Disorders and Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and is an Honorary Professor of English at the University of St Andrews.

Books in order of publication:

Manic-Depressive Illness, New York: Oxford University Press – (1990)

Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament, New York: The Free Press, (1993)

An Unquiet Mind, New York: Vintage Books Random House, (1995)

Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide, New York: Vintage Books Random House, (1999)

Exuberance: The Passion for Life, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (2004)

Manic-Depressive Illness (Second ed.), New York: Oxford University Press, (2007)

Nothing Was the Same: A Memoir, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (2009)

Robert Lowell: Setting the River on Fire, New York: Alfred A. Knopf – (2017)

Fires in the Dark: Healing the Mind, the Oldest Branch of Medicine. Knopf (2023)