Abnormal Psychology; Introduction to Psychology: Suicide Risk
Fifty percent of people with bipolar disorder attempt suicide at some point in their lives; 20% complete the act. Kay Redfield Jamison talks about her own struggle with bipolar disorder and the sense of helplessness and pain that result. The period ...
Abnormal Psychology; Introduction to Psychology: Bipolar Disorder
With bipolar disorder, the mood landscape is more complex. In the first stage called hypo mania depressions are offset by periods of mild mania. For about 50% of people with bipolar illness, these early stages are an incredible rush of ideas and cre...
Social and Interpersonal Implications of Psychiatric Illnesses
Professor of psychiatry and author Kay Redfield Jamison talks about how difficult it is to confide in friends or someone you're going out with that you have a serious psychiatric disorder for which you're being treated. Dr Jamison also urges schools...
Psychiatric Illnesses and Creative People
Professor of psychiatry and author Kay Redfield Jamison says that, in rare instances, "...there's an unusual combination that can occur in some people...where you have someone who's imaginative to begin with, and then give them an intense mood disor...
Psychiatric Medications
Professor of psychiatry and author Kay Redfield Jamison talks about the high levels of Lithium she took early in her treatment. Dr. Jamison explains this was done to "get my mania in line," but also because it was the standard of medical care at the...
Progress in Neuroscience
Professor of psychiatry and author Kay Redfield Jamison talks about the progress that's been made in better understanding and treating bipolar illness in the years since she and co-author Fred Goodwin wrote their textbook. "I would say sixty to seve...