-
May 13, 2024 | 
citylights.com | Kay Redfield Jamison
"In this loose sequel to a bestselling memoir of bipolar illness, Jamison, a writer and a psychologist, explores the process of prying a mind from disease or despair. Healing, she writes, depends on "harvesting the imagination" and navigating "the balance between remembering and forgetting"; it also, crucially, relies on support . . .
-
May 3, 2024 | 
statnews.com | Kay Redfield Jamison
Doctors have observed and treated bipolar disorder for thousands of years. Known throughout history by many names, like depression, mania, manic-depressive illness, or psychosis, the disorder is common and closely tied to that which makes us human: our thinking, our behavior, our hopes, and our ambitions. A solid foundation of science grounds the understanding of bipolar disorder; what’s lacking are strong data about the experience of people with the condition.
-
May 2, 2024 | 
rb.gy | Kay Redfield Jamison |Byron’s Letters |J.G. Ballard |Abigail Gosselin
BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. The reader will excuse my frequent references to the poets for facts to illustrate the history of madness. They view the human mind in all its operations, whether natural or morbid, with a microscopic eye; and hence many things arrest their attention, which would escape the notice of physicians.
-
May 2, 2024 | 
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu | Kay Redfield Jamison |Byron’s Letters |J.G. Ballard |Abigail Gosselin
BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. The reader will excuse my frequent references to the poets for facts to illustrate the history of madness. They view the human mind in all its operations, whether natural or morbid, with a microscopic eye; and hence many things arrest their attention, which would escape the notice of physicians.
-
Apr 18, 2024 | 
nybooks.com | Frank Bidart |Kay Redfield Jamison |Robert Lowell |William Wordsworth
The Heart Is Strange: New Selected Poems by John Berryman, edited and with an introduction by Daniel Swift The Dream Songs by John Berryman, with an introduction by Michael Hofmann 77 Dream Songs by John Berryman, with an introduction by Henri Cole Berryman’s Sonnets by John Berryman, with an introduction by April Bernard
-
Feb 8, 2024 | 
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu | J.G. Ballard |Didier Eribon |Kay Redfield Jamison |Timothy Baker
BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. J. G. Ballard (1930-2009) was a colossal figure in English literature and an imaginative force of the 20th century. Alongside seminal novels — from the notorious “Crash” (1973) to the semi-autobiographical “Empire of the Sun” (1984) — Ballard was a sought-after reviewer and commentator, publishing journalism, memoir, and cultural criticism in a variety of forms.
-
Jan 11, 2024 | 
shepherd.com | Claudia Kalb |Kay Redfield Jamison |Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Oliver Sacks merges science and storytelling with elegance and grace in every one of his books about human behavior. He’s honest, compassionate, and curious—all characteristics that consistently draw me to his writing and make me what to learn more. In An Anthropologist on Mars, Sacks profiles seven neurological patients and the conditions that affect them, including a painter with colorblindness and the scientist Temple Grandin, who has autism.
-
Nov 2, 2023 | 
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu | N. Katherine Hayles |Daniel C. Dennett |Kay Redfield Jamison |J.G. Ballard
BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. In the grand tradition of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, Stanisław Lem’s “The Invincible” tells the story of a space cruiser sent to an obscure planet to determine the fate of a sister spaceship whose communication with Earth has abruptly ceased.
-
Oct 4, 2023 | 
thenewatlantis.com | Kay Redfield Jamison |Algis Valiunas
Sign in or Subscribe Now for audio version Doctor Kay Redfield Jamison, a clinical psychologist, chaired professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University, honorary professor of English at the University of St. Andrews, author of now seven books for the general reader on psychiatric subjects, co-author of the standard textbook on manic depression, and MacArthur award recipient, is the most important writer we have on severe mental illness.
-
May 25, 2023 | 
time.com | Kay Redfield Jamison
Our medical ancestors sought to heal the mind long before they could treat diseases of the brain. Magicians and priests tended the sick through suggestion, therapeutic bond, and tincture of time, not by science. This has changed.
