An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

　　她聰明、美麗、深具智慧，

　　她是臨床心理博士，是躁鬱症權威，

　　就在擔任大學教授三個月後，

　　她，瘋狂了……



　　她的世界曾是那麼精力充沛，教她心喜若狂。轉眼才一瞬間，思緒完全逆轉，她不再對事物起任何興趣，沮喪、焦躁大量湧現，生活如脫韁野馬般失去控制，感受淹沒了她，她不明白到底哪些感覺才是真的？



　　身為精神醫學界國際知名的頂尖學者，她卻因躁鬱夢魘陷入情緒之苦。在專業醫術與隱藏病情之間，她選擇坦誠面對，將自己與躁鬱症奮戰三十年的內心煎熬一一敘說。書中文字時而透出濃濃愁緒，讓人感受病情的激烈兇猛；時而出現淡淡哀傷，讓人體悟生命的複雜無常。在作者纖細極富情感的文字下，篇篇扣人心弦，不忍卒讀。



　　本文取自天下文化出版《躁鬱之心》

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A deeply powerful memoir about bipolar illness that has both transformed and saved lives--with a new preface by the author.

Dr. Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness; she has also experienced it firsthand. For even while she was pursuing her career in academic medicine, Jamison found herself succumbing to the same exhilarating highs and catastrophic depressions that afflicted many of her patients, as her disorder launched her into ruinous spending sprees, episodes of violence, and an attempted suicide.

Here Jamison examines bipolar illness from the dual perspectives of the healer and the healed, revealing both its terrors and the cruel allure that at times prompted her to resist taking medication.

KAY REDFIELD JAMISON is a professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine as well as an honorary professor of English at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. She is the author of the national best sellers An Unquiet Mind, Night Falls Fast, and Touched with Fire. She is coauthor of the standard medical text on manic-depressive illness and author or coauthor of more than one hundred scientific papers about mood disorders, creativity, and psychopharmacology. Dr. Jamison, the recipient of numerous national and international scientific awards, is a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellow.