Kay Redfield Jamison

Kay Redfield Jamison is an American clinical psychologist and writer whose work centers on bipolar disorder. She serves as the Dalio Professor in Mood Disorders and a professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, having earned her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from UCLA. She is the author of the bestselling memoir 'An Unquiet Mind' and 'Robert Lowell: Setting the River on Fire', a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Her honors include a MacArthur Fellowship and the Sarnat Prize from the National Academy of Medicine.