Kay Redfield Jamison Audio & Video

Watch or listen to this great series from the Library of Congress on streaming video or audio podcast. Project chair Kay Redfield Jamison convenes scientists and scholars, composers, performers, theorists, physicians, psychologists, and other experts to talk about cognitive neuroscience and music.

The personal memoir of a manic depressive and an authority on the subject describes the onset of the illness during her teenage years and her determined journey through the realm of available treatments....

Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison is one the best authors and speakers when it comes to articulating the experience of manic-depressive illness.

In this special ninth episode of the Charlie Rose Brain Series, Charlie invites to the table two experts on mental illness that are also sufferers themselves.

Project chair Kay Redfield Jamison convenes scientists and scholars, composers, performers, theorists, physicians, psychologists, and other experts to talk about cognitive neuroscience and music.

Critical listening for parents, educators, and anyone wanting to understand the tragic epidemic of suicide-"a powerful book (that) will change people's lives-and, doubtless, save a few" (Newsday).

Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison is a psychologist who specializes in manic-depressive disorder, which she has dealt with herself and detailed in her memoir An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness. But in this joyous talk delivered at the Teacher Wellness Conference, Dr. Jamison talks about her book Exuberance: The Passion for Life.

Big Think sits with the Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University and author of "Nothing Was the Same."

In this magisterial study of the relationship between illness and art, the best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison, brings an entirely fresh understanding to the work and life of Robert Lowell (1917-1977)…

The acclaimed author of An Unquiet Mind considers the age-old quest for relief from psychological pain and the role of the exceptional healer in the journey back to health.