February 21, 2008
An Unquiet Lecture:
Someone's uploaded a video to YouTube of the fantastic Kay Redfield Jamison discussing her own experiences with bipolar disorder.
Jamison is a psychologist and one of the world's leading experts on the science of the condition that's often called manic depression.
She was known for her groundbreaking work on the disorder for many years before she 'came out of the closet' and described her own experience in her powerful and lyrical autobiography An Unquiet Mind.
Having attempted suicide and become quite psychotic at times, she has experienced the most extreme edges of the condition.
In this lecture, rather than presenting any of her considerable scientific research, she discusses the subjective experience of the highs, lows and distortions of thought that can occur in this mood disorder.
Link to Kay Redfield Jamison lecture (via AHP/WoP).
