Books by Kay Redfield Jamison
The Unquiet Mind
by Kay Redfield Jamison
To read a book written by someone who has a comprehensive theoretical understanding of a very complicated mental health issue and who also has an understanding of it from a personal point of view, is truly humbling.
Night Falls Fast
by Kay Redfield Jamison
This is really more like a textbook, but it says some important things. She tried to commit suicide herself when she was 28.
Interviews where books by Kay Redfield Jamison were recommended
Books About Suicide, recommended by Johanna Reiss
As a young Dutch Jewish girl, Johanna Reiss survived World War II hidden in the attic of a farmer called Johan Oosterveld. Her memoir of that time, The Upstairs Room, is still read in schools today. But while she was researching that book in 1969, her American husband, Jim, killed himself. In this interview, she recommends books on the painful subject of suicide, as well as the music that helped heal the pain.
The best books on Child Psychology and Mental Health, recommended by Tanya Byron
Clinical psychologist, author and broadcaster discusses the stigmas attached to mental health problems, and asks whether, as a society, we are really doing what’s best for our children
