PSY BEH 11C Chapter Notes - Chapter 16b: Phantasmagoria, Semel Institute For Neuroscience And Human Behavior, Kay Redfield Jamison
26 Feb 2017
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From an unquiet mind: a memoir of moods and madness by kay redfield jamison. Within a month of signing appointment papers to become an assistant professor of psychiatry at ucla, she was well on her way to madness: beholden to moods for as long as she could remember. The chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful. In some strange way, she has tried to do that with manic-depressive illness. A distillation both of what is finest in our natures, and of what is most dangerous. Yet lost years a(cid:374)d relatio(cid:374)ships (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:374)ot (cid:271)e re(cid:272)overed . It is an illness that is biological in its origins, yet one that feels psychological in the experience of it. An illness that is unique in its conferring advantage and pleasure, yet one that brings in its wake almost unendurable suffering and, not infrequently, suicide.
