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An international authority and researcher on mood disorders, Kay Redfield Jamison has unique insight into the world of mental illness. In 1995, as Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University, she shocked her colleagues by going public with her personal struggle with manic-depression in a Washington Post article, and subsequent book of the same name: An Unquiet Mind. Since then, Jamison has authored additional bestsellers including Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Creative Temperament and Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide.