Kay Redfield Jamison, PhD
Dalio Professor in Mood Disorders; Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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Dr. Jamison is the Co-Director of the Mood Disorders Center and the Dalio Professor in Mood Disorders, Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is also Honorary Professor of English at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. She is the co-author of the standard medical text on bipolar (manic-depressive) illness, which was chosen as the most outstanding book in biomedical sciences by the American Association of Publishers, and author of Touched with Fire, An Unquiet Mind, Night Falls Fast, Exuberance, Nothing Was the Same, and Robert Lowell: Setting the River on Fire (2018 Pulitzer finalist), and Fires in the Dark: Healing the Unquiet Mind.