Kay Redfield Jamison: Fires in the Dark
Fires in the Dark
Buch
- Healing the Unquiet Mind
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 05/2024
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781984898203
- Bestellnummer: 11582443
- Umfang: 416 Seiten
- Gewicht: 408 g
- Maße: 203 x 132 mm
- Stärke: 21 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 14.5.2024
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Klappentext
The acclaimed author of An Unquiet Mind considers the age-old quest for relief from psychological pain and the role of the exceptional healer in the journey back to health.“To treat, even to cure, is not always to heal.” In this expansive cultural history of the treatment and healing of mental suffering, Kay Jamison writes about psychotherapy, what makes a great healer, and the role of imagination and memory in regenerating the mind. From the trauma of the battlefields of the twentieth century, to those who are grieving, depressed, or with otherwise unquiet minds, to her own experience with bipolar illness, Jamison demonstrates how remarkable psychotherapy and other treatments can be when done well. She argues that not only patients but doctors must be healed. She draws on the example of W. H.R. Rivers, the renowned psychiatrist who treated poet Siegfried Sassoon and other World War I soldiers, and discusses the long history of physical treatments for mental illness, as well as the ancient and modern importance of religion, ritual, and myth in healing the mind. She looks at the vital role of artists and writers, as well as exemplary figures, such as Paul Robeson, who have helped to heal us as a people. Fires in the Dark is a beautiful meditation on the quest and adventure of healing the mind, on the power of accompaniment, and the necessity for knowledge.
Biografie
Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison ist Professorin für Psychiatrie an der Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. das Time Magazine wählte sie zum "Hero of Medicine". Die Autorin und Koautorin zahlreicher Bücher über bipolare Störungen leidet selbst an dieser Erkrankung und hat gelernt, mit ihr zu umzugehen. Seit 2010 ist sie mit dem Kardiologen und Medizinprofessor Thomas Traill verheiratet.![Kay Redfield Jamison: Fires in the Dark, Buch](https://lesen.de/image/w468/front/0/9781984898203.jpg)
Kay Redfield Jamison
Fires in the Dark
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