Kay Redfield Jamison, 2003-09-09
Scope and Contents
Kay Redfield Jamison, psychiatrist and author, is interviewed by Mila Pollock, on September 9, 2003, at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
Kay Redfield Jamison discusses the following in her interview:
Scene 1. Jim Watson: personality and influence -- Scene 2. Jim and Liz Watson -- Scene 3. Jim Watson, writer "The double helix" -- Scene 4. Jim Watson, writer "A passion for DNA".
Dates
- Creation: 2003-09-09
Creator
- Jamison, Kay R. (Interviewee, Person)
- Pollock, Ludmila (Interviewer, Person)
- Clark, Clare (Transcriber, Person)
- Viteri, Carlos (Videographer, Person)
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Library and Archives (Publisher, Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Portions of this collection have been digitized and are available online: https://library.cshl.edu/oralhistory/. Select tapes have been digitized thanks to support from CLIR Recordings at Risk Grant awarded in 2021, these tapes are available for research online via our Oral History Website and in person at CSHL Archives. Please contact CSHL Archives archives@cshl.edu with any questions regarding availability.
Biographical / Historical
Kay Jamison is a clinical psychologist and writer, professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and honorary professor of English at the University of St. Andrews. She earned B.A. and M.A. degrees from University of California in 1971 and Ph.D. in 1975 and she became a faculty member.
She is a famous expert on biopolar disorder and co-author of textbook on bipolar disorder. She suffers herself from manic-depressive illness. There were cases of that illness in her family on her father's side. She was under treatment but she attempted suicide by taking an overdose of lithium.
She is an author of such books as Touched with Fire, An Unquiet Mind, and Night Falls Fast. An Unquiet Mind is memoir about her experiences with manic-depression and was selected by The Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, and the Seattle Post Intelligencer as one of the best books of 1995. During her career she received numerous awards. At the time when she was professor at Hopkins she was also lecturer at a number of different institutions. In 2002 she was distinguished lecturer at Harvard University and in 2003 Litchfield lecturer at the University of Oxford.
More Information: Wikipedia
Extent
1 Cassettes (Camcorder footage) : Hi-8 - CSHL1264
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Subject
- Watson, James D., 1928- (Person)
- Watson, Elizabeth L. (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives Repository
Library & Archives
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