Having Half the Fun
Jenny Diski, 9 May 1996
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
by Kay Redfield Jamison.
Picador, 220 pp., £15.99, April 1996,0 330 34650 4 Show More
by Kay Redfield Jamison.
Picador, 220 pp., £15.99, April 1996,
Touched with Fire
by Kay Redfield Jamison.
Free Press, 250 pp., £19.95, December 1994,0 02 916030 8 Show More
by Kay Redfield Jamison.
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,
“... be cut loose and sent off to the margins of society. You might also, if Kay Redfield Jamison 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 can be a success or a failure as a mad person. As if mental ... ”