The revolution in psychiatry that began in the 1950s led to dramatic advances in the understanding and treatment of manic-depressive illness, also known as bipolar disorder. No other mental illness has been the subject of such extensive, clinically useful, and scientifically productive research. Hailed as the most outstanding book in the biomedical sciences when it was originally published in 1990, Manic-Depressive Illness was the first to survey this massive body of evidence comprehensively and to assess its meaning for both clinician and scientist. It also vividly portrayed the experience of manic-depressive illness from the perspective of patients, their doctors, and researchers. In this magisterial second edition, Drs. Frederick Goodwin and Kay Redfield Jamison, with the assistance of a select team of other leading scientists in the field, exhaustively review the biological and genetic literature that has dominated the field in recent years and incorporate cutting-edge research con

Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression, Vol. 1, 2nd Edition

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Frederick K. Goodwin

Kay Redfield Jamison

Mental Health

Oxford University Press

Suicide is the third major killer of young people in the Western world, and in the closing decades of the twentieth century it reached epidemic proportions: around the world there has been a frightening surge in suicides committed by children, adolescents and young adults. Kay Redfield Jamison is herself a survivor of a nearly lethal suicide attempt which came after years of battling manic depression. Her survival marked the beginning of a life's work to investigate mental illness and self-inflicted death, and she is now an internationally recognized authority on the depressive illnesses. In Night Falls Fast Dr. Jamison dispels the silence and shame that surround the subject of suicide and provides a better understanding of the suicidal mind and a chance to recognize the person at risk. She brings to the book not only wide scientific knowledge and clinical experience but also great compassion. In tracing the network of reasons underlying the phenomenon, she gives us astonishing examples and a startling look at the journals, drawings and farewell notes of people who have chosen to kill themselves. She also provides vivid insight into the most recent findings from hospitals and laboratories across the world; the critical biological and psychological factors that interact to cause suicide; and the new strategies being evolved to combat them. Night Falls Fast is a sensitive and penetrating analysis that helps us to comprehend the profound and disturbing sense of loss created in those left behind. It is the first major book on the subject in a quarter of a century and stands to become a classic account of one of the most devastating and destructive causes of death of our time. `An important, moving and informative book' Guardian `For anyone in any way connected with a potential suicide this book is essential reading: that means all of us' The Times `This is a lyrical, beautifully argued, deep and deeply troubling book' Evening Standard `A profound and impassioned book which will stand as the authoritative study of suicide for many years' William Styron

Night Falls Fast : Understanding Suicide

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Picador

The author of the bestselling An Unquiet Mind–and internationally renowned authority on mood disorders–now gives us something wonderfully different: an exploration of exuberance and how it fuels our most important creative and scientific achievements.John Muir’s lifelong passion to save America’s wild places, Wilson Bentley’s legendary obsession to record for posterity the beauty of individual snowflakes, the boundless scientific curiosity behind Watson and Crick’s discovery of DNA, sea lions that surf and porcupines that dance–Kay Redfield Jamison shows how these and many more examples both human and animal define the nature of exuberance, and how this exuberance relates to intellectual searching, risk-taking, creativity, and survival itself. She examines the hereditary predisposition to exuberance; the role of the brain chemical dopamine; the connection between positive moods and psychological resilience; and the differences between exuberance and mania. She delves into some of the phenomena of exuberance–the contagiousness of laughter, the giddiness of new love, the intoxicating effects of music and of religious ecstasy–while also addressing the dangerous desire to simulate exuberance by using drugs or alcohol. In a fascinating and intimate coda to the rest of the book, renowned scientists, writers, and politicians share their thoughts on the forms and role of exuberance in their own lives.Original, inspiring, authoritative, Exuberance brims with the very energy and passion that it celebrates.

Exuberance

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Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

Suicide is the third major killer of young people in the Western world, and in the closing decades of the twentieth century it reached epidemic around the world there has been a frightening surge in suicides committed by children, adolescents and young adults. Kay Redfield Jamison is herself a survivor of a nearly lethal suicide attempt which came after years of battling manic depression. Her survival marked the beginning of a lifes work to investigate mental illness and self-inflicted death, and she is now an internationally recognized authority on the depressive illnesses. In Night Falls Fast Dr. Jamison dispels the silence and shame that surround the subject of suicide and provides a better understanding of the suicidal mind and a chance to recognize the person at risk. She brings to the book not only wide scientific knowledge and clinical experience but also great compassion. In tracing the network of reasons underlying the phenomenon, she gives us astonishing examples and a startling look at the journals, drawings and farewell notes of people who have chosen to kill themselves. She also provides vivid insight into the most recent findings from hospitals and laboratories across the world; the critical biological and psychological factors that interact to cause suicide; and the new strategies being evolved to combat them. Night Falls Fast is a sensitive and penetrating analysis that helps us to comprehend the profound and disturbing sense of loss created in those left behind. It is the first major book on the subject in a quarter of a century and stands to become a classic account of one of the most devastating and destructive causes of death of our time.

An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (Picador Classic)

Tab. Transtorno Afetivo Bipolar

SOMOS Livros

#Uma mente inquieta é o relato comovente e estimulante de uma mulher cuja feroz determinação de conhecer o inimigo, de usar os dons de seu intelecto para exercer influência no mundo, a levou a se tornar uma autoridade internacional em doença maníaco-depressiva. É a revelação de sua própria luta, desde a adolescência, com a doença e de como esta moldou sua vida.# Editora: WMF# Autor: KAY REDFIELD JAMISON# ISBN: 9788578271817# Origem: Nacional# Ano: 2009# Edição: 2# Número de páginas: 288# Acabamento: Brochura# Formato: Médio

Uma Mente Inquieta - An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness - portuguese edition

Martinsfontes

This book is entirely in Chinese, a translation of the author's work in English.

An Unquiet Mind (in traditional Chinese, NOT in English)

Self-Help

Tian Xia

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