Kay Redfield Jamison is a great speaker and a recent lecture video captures her mix of expertise and enthusiasm. Exuberance: The Passion for Life is about positive emotions often overlooked by psychology and psychiatry, while asking when does passion turn pathological? Jamison talks about how exuberance changes all of us by creating leaders adept at risk-taking, resilience, achievement, creativity, and teaching. This video’s an hour long, but you won’t notice the time.
Randy Pausch, RIP, is the perfect example of an exuberant, inspiring speaker in the famous Last Lecture, Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams. His enthusiasm was viral to millions of viewers, and worth viewing the hour-long lecture format.
I’ve featured another Kay Red Field Jamison video here before, but if you missed it I re-recommend An Unquiet Mind. It’s an eloquent description of her personal experience with bipolar. As well, check out an interview by Charlie Rose: she discusses suicide as a public health issue as well as an emotional problem. I look forward to her next book tour with more talks and interviews, and encourage you to read Exuberance and watch at least one of these videos.
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I found Kay Redfield Jamison’s Book, The Unquiet Mind. beautifully wriiten, and very p
oignant. My partner has rapid cycling bipolar disorder and no insight at all, neither do his psychiatrists it appears, as they are struggling to get him well, and seem very inept.
I loved her book. It was an emotional journey reading it for me of identification with her situation but from the partners side too.
I think she is remarkable having achieved so much, but I think that is because she was able to harness her insight and great ability and had very supportive colleagues. As judgement is often an issue with bipolar disorder, it is amazing she was permitted to practice in such a sensitive field requiring astute judgement.She can’thave been a rapid cycler, but I read did have profoundly severe episodes. They must have been less frequent to allow her to pracice in her profession. as she said she could not even as a professorof psychiatry recognsie her own manias ? Amazing.
The book is humourous, intelligent, sad and very moving. I recommend it and look firward to hearing the video recordings you mentioned. I would love an opportunity to meet her and talk away a day.
Marty . Nov 3rd 2008
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I found Kay Redfield Jamison’s Book, The Unquiet Mind. beautifully wriiten, and very p
oignant. My partner has rapid cycling bipolar disorder and no insight at all, neither do his psychiatrists it appears, as they are struggling to get him well, and seem very inept.
I loved her book. It was an emotional journey reading it for me of identification with her situation but from the partners side too.
I think she is remarkable having achieved so much, but I think that is because she was able to harness her insight and great ability and had very supportive colleagues. As judgement is often an issue with bipolar disorder, it is amazing she was permitted to practice in such a sensitive field requiring astute judgement.She can’thave been a rapid cycler, but I read did have profoundly severe episodes. They must have been less frequent to allow her to pracice in her profession. as she said she could not even as a professorof psychiatry recognsie her own manias ? Amazing.
The book is humourous, intelligent, sad and very moving. I recommend it and look firward to hearing the video recordings you mentioned. I would love an opportunity to meet her and talk away a day.
Marty . Nov 3rd 2008
