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Kay Redfield Jamison

Psychologist · Professor · Author

United States
Bipolar disorderSelf-disclosed [2]

Kay Redfield Jamison is a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University and co-director of its Mood Disorders Center. She has written about bipolar disorder from both professional and personal perspectives. [1]

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Career and work

Jamison is the Dalio Professor in Mood Disorders and a professor of psychiatry and behavioural sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She co-wrote Manic-Depressive Illness. Her other books include An Unquiet Mind, Touched with Fire, Night Falls Fast and Robert Lowell: Setting the River on Fire. [1]

What has been publicly discussed

“You really don't want to romanticize bipolar disorder.”

— Kay Redfield Jamison [4]