Nothing Was the Same
Published on 15. September 2009
256 pages
978-0-307-27313-0 (ISBN)
Description
Kay Redfield Jamison, award-winning professor and writer, changed the way we think about moods and madness. Now Jamison uses her characteristic honesty, wit and eloquence to look back at her relationship with her husband, Richard Wyatt, a renowned scientist who died of cancer. Nothing was the Same is a penetrating psychological study of grief viewed from deep inside the experience itself.
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Nothing Was the Same
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Kay Redfield Jamison is Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and codirector of the Johns Hopkins Mood Disorders Center. She is also Honorary Professor of English at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. She is the author of the national best sellers An Unquiet Mind and Night Falls Fast, as well as Exuberance and Touched with Fire; the coauthor of the standard medical text on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness; and the author or coauthor of more than one hundred scientific papers about mood disorders, creativity, and psychopharmacology. She is the recipient of numerous national and international scientific awards and of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship.
Content
- Intro
- Other Books By This Author
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Prologue
- Part One - Assured by Love
- Chapter One - The Pleasure of his Company
- Chapter Two - Lilacs and a Roman Ring
- Part Two - Last Champagne
- Chapter Three - Broken Portions
- Chapter Four - Raining Stars
- Chapter Five - Joy Be the Starlight
- Part Three - Of Something Lost
- Chapter Six - Wildflowers and Granite
- Chapter Seven - Mourning and Melancholia
- Chapter Eight - Fugitive Dyes
- Acknowledgments
- Permissions Acknowledgments
- A Note About the Author
- About this Book
- Readers' Guide
- Copyright
