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"Exuberance: The Passion for Life" is the latest book (2004) of Dr Kay Redfield Jamison and I highly recommend it for psychiatrists for some "leisure reading". I have yet to finish it, but it is quite uplifting!
Jamison, as most of you probably already know is an international authority figure on depression (mostly the bipolar type). In this book, she explores the psychological state of exuberance and how it fuels our most important creative and scientific achievements. For once, a book that celebrates the "ups" as oppose to the "downs" of mood disorders! Dr. Jamison investigates how some of the world's most famous scientists, artists, writers and politicians are affected by exuberance and how it relates to intellectual achievements, creativity, risk-taking and survival itself.
I respect Jamison not only for her expertise in the field of manic depression ( she is a professor of psychiatry at the John Hopkins School of Medicine, coauthor of a medical text on bipolar disorder, author/co-author of more than 100 scientific papers relating to mood disorders, recipient of numerous national and international scientific awards) , but I also find her written style to be quite eloquent and pleasurable to read. 👍 As a matter of fact, she is also an honorary professor of English.
Other books written by Jamison:
Touched with Fire:Manic Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament (which I have yet to finish)
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
Jamison, as most of you probably already know is an international authority figure on depression (mostly the bipolar type). In this book, she explores the psychological state of exuberance and how it fuels our most important creative and scientific achievements. For once, a book that celebrates the "ups" as oppose to the "downs" of mood disorders! Dr. Jamison investigates how some of the world's most famous scientists, artists, writers and politicians are affected by exuberance and how it relates to intellectual achievements, creativity, risk-taking and survival itself.
I respect Jamison not only for her expertise in the field of manic depression ( she is a professor of psychiatry at the John Hopkins School of Medicine, coauthor of a medical text on bipolar disorder, author/co-author of more than 100 scientific papers relating to mood disorders, recipient of numerous national and international scientific awards) , but I also find her written style to be quite eloquent and pleasurable to read. 👍 As a matter of fact, she is also an honorary professor of English.
Other books written by Jamison:
Touched with Fire:Manic Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament (which I have yet to finish)
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
