Having Half the Fun
Jenny Diski, 9 May 1996
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
by Kay RedfieldJamison.
Picador, 220 pp., £15.99, April 1996,0 330 34650 4 Show More
by Kay RedfieldJamison.
Picador, 220 pp., £15.99, April 1996,
Touched with Fire
by Kay RedfieldJamison.
Free Press, 250 pp., £19.95, December 1994,0 02 916030 8 Show More
by Kay RedfieldJamison.
Free Press, 250 pp., £19.95, December 1994,
Welcome to My Country: A Therapist’s Memoir of Medness
by Lauren Slater.
Hamish Hamilton, 199 pp., £16, April 1996,0 241 13638 5 Show More
by Lauren Slater.
Hamish Hamilton, 199 pp., £16, April 1996,
“... one-on-one analysis – or be cut loose and sent off to the margins of society. You might also, if Kay RedfieldJamison and Lauren Slater’s books are any indication of present trends, choose either to become a creative artist or, if the muse doesn’t speak, train as a clinical psychologist. Nowadays, it seems, you ... ”