Kay Redfield Jamison takes the title of her new book, Fires in the Dark, from Sassoon’s vivid image of how medical psychologist, physician and anthropologist W.H.R. Rivers tended to his psychological ...
Kay Redfield Jamison says she began falling in love with the poet Robert Lowell in 1963 as a 17-year-old senior in high school, not long after her first debilitating episode of bipolar disorder. "My ...
The New York Times: After Writing About Mental Illness, Kay Redfield Jamison Turns to Healers
In “Fires in the Dark,” Jamison, known for her expertise on manic depression, delves into the quest to heal. Her new book, she says, is a “love song to psychotherapy.” By Casey Schwartz Kay Redfield ...
Clinical psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison's Robert Lowell: Setting the River on Fire intimately details the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's mental illness and how it shaped his poetic output. Robert ...
Lenney is the author of "Bigger Than Life: A Murder, a Memoir." In the prologue to “Nothing Was the Same,” Kay Redfield Jamison writes, “It has been said that grief is a kind of madness. I disagree.
The Washington Post: Kay Redfield Jamison puts Robert Lowell on the couch in an exhilarating biography
There are no half measures to Kay Redfield Jamison’s medico-biographical study of poet Robert Lowell. It is impassioned, intellectually thrilling and often beautifully written, despite being ...
Kay Redfield Jamison puts Robert Lowell on the couch in an exhilarating biography
HUB: Kay Redfield Jamison's bio of poet Robert Lowell named Pulitzer finalist
Kay Redfield Jamison, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, wrote a biography of American poet Robert Lowell that was a finalist in the 2018 Pulitzer Prize category of autobiography or ...