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Nothing Was the Same Audio Book
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Nothing Was the Same
Author:
Kay Redfield Jamison
Reader: Renée Raudman
Haunting meditation on mortality, grief, and loss. Jamison recalls her relationship with her husband, a renowned scientist who battled dyslexia to become an expert on schizophrenia. She describes his slow surrender to cancer and her own struggle with overpowering grief, while recalling the joy he brought her. From the author of An Unquiet Mind. "Filled with exquisitely wrought nuances of emotion... brilliant."—Booklist
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Available Audio Book Editions:
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UNABRIDGED |
Audio CDs ( 5 ) |
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Publish Date: 09/15/2009
ISBN: 9781400113064
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| E1M306 |
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MP3-CD (1) |
$19.99 |
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Synopsis:
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Famed psychiatrist Kay Redfield Jamison (AN UNQUIET MIND) attempts to use memoir as therapy, as she charts the life and death of her husband Richard Wyatt, who was a pillar of the psychiatric field despite being afflicted with severe dyslexia. Jamison, who has previously documented her ongoing battle with manic depression, found the remedy she desperately needed in Wyatt, who was familiar with the pain of mental strife. Though the couple's fluctuating emotional rhythms often led to conflict, the friction occurred only on the surface, while internally their bonds of love grew stronger. In 1999, Wyatt learned that his Hodgkin's disease, which had lain dormant for 20 years, was back, and thus began the tedious torture of preparing for the inevitable. Jamison renders their remarkable relationship with tender eloquence, and poignantly documents the daily strength required to keep her grief from transforming into depression.
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Book Reviews:
| "It is fascinating to read NOTHING WAS THE SAME as a kind of sequel to AN UNQUIET MIND....Jamison makes it clear that coming clean about her illness was a personal necessity, the release of an internal pressure that she could no longer hide....In this slim, intense memoir Jamison shows us that mourning leads us back to life." |
| New York Times Book Review - Michael Greenberg (11/15/2009) |
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| "One thing that makes this book especially compelling is its quiet matter-of-factness in the face of personal catastrophe....Every step carries emotion -- shock, dread, hope, joy, despair -- and Jamison portrays each of these with piercing clarity....The great gift Jamison offers here, beyond her honesty and the beauty of her writing, is perspective: a clear-eyed view of illness and death, sanity and insanity, love and grief." |
| Washington Post - Reeve Lindbergh (09/06/2009) |
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Author Bio:
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The middle child in a military family, Kay Redfield Jamison was the inheritor of manic-depressive illness, a fact which--as much as her lifelong scientific curiosity, literary bent, and determination--propelled her into a high-profile career in psychiatry. After studying at UCLA in the early 1970s--where she first became diagnostically aware of her illness--Jamison found her place as a respected doctor and professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University Medical School. The list of awards granted to Jamison along her academic path stretches longer than most people's resumes, among them the UCLA Woman of Science Award and the American Suicide Foundation Research Award. Also, she has over 100 scientific articles and a handful of books under her belt, such as her co-authored standard text on manic-depressive illness (acclaimed by the American Association of Publishers) and her own memoir, AN UNQUIET MIND, which received the 1995-1996 Critics Choice Award. Because of her firsthand experience with mental illness, Jamison spends much of her time working for the recognition of suicide as a legitimate national health issue and has become a strong proponent for psychological medications such as Lithium. Jamison has been an accessible voice to both lay readers and professionals in the psychiatric field, as she writes and speaks with the insight of both the healer and the healed.
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