Nothing Was The Same

Author: Kay Redfield Jamison (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)

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Price : $29.95 AUD
ISBN : 9780307277893
Publisher : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint : Random House Inc
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Weight (g) : 0.236
Publication date : January 2011
Dimensions : 201mm X 135mm X 18mm
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Author : Kay Redfield Jamison (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)
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Language : English
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In spare and at times strikingly lyrical prose, Jamison ("An Unquiet Mind") looks back at her relationship with her husband, Richard Wyatt, a renowned scientist who battled severe dyslexia to become one of the foremost experts on schizophrenia.

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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.

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