Kay Redfield Jamison

thumb|Kay Redfield Jamison in 2007 Kay Redfield Jamison (born 14 October 1946) is a world-renowned psychologist who is an expert on bipolar disorder, from which she herself suffers. Quotes I have often asked myself whether, given the choice, I would choose to have manic-depressive illness. ... Strangely enough, I think I would choose to have it. It's complicated. Depression is awful beyond words or sounds or images ... So why would I want anything to do with this illness? Because I honestly believe that as a result of it I have felt more things, more deeply; had more experiences, more intensely; ... worn death 'as close as dungarees', appreciated it - and life - more; seen the finest and most terrible in people ... But, normal or manic, I have run faster, thought faster, and loved faster than most I know. And I think much of this is related to my illness - the intensity it gives to things An Unquiet Mind If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living? Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness External links Category:Women academics from the United States Category:Psychologists from the United States Category:Women authors from the United States Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States Category:Memoirists from the United States Category:Episcopalians from the United States Category:1946 births Category:Living people Category:MacArthur Fellows Category:University of California, Los Angeles alumni Category:Johns Hopkins University faculty