An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness delves down into the mind of author Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison as she explores her real life descent into manicdepressive mental illness. Dr. Jamison, a professor of psychiatry at John Hopkins University School of Medicine, one of the foremost authorities on bipolar mood disorder opens her life to the reader as she details the acute highs and the ruinous lows associated with the disorder that let her both to euphoria and desperate situations.
