Nothing was the same: a memoir
Language: English
Adaptation; Psychological - United States Attitude to Death - United States Autobiography Biography Biography & Autobiography Death; Grief; Bereavement Family & Relationships General Grief - United States Hodgkin's disease Hodgkin's disease - Patients - United States Jamison; Kay R Medical Mental Illness Neoplasms - psychology - United States Oncology Patients Personal Memoirs Psychiatrists Psychiatrists - United States Psychiatrists' spouses Psychiatrists' spouses - United States Psychiatry - United States Psychologists Psychologists - United States Psychology Self-Help Social Scientists & Psychologists Spouses - psychology - United States United States Wyatt; Richard Jed Wyatt; Richard Jed - Health
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Published: Sep 22, 2009
Description:
EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the internationally acclaimed author of *An Unquiet Mind,* an exquisite, haunting meditation on mortality, grief, and loss.Perhaps no one but Kay Redfield Jamison—who combines the acute perceptions of a psychologist with a writerly elegance and passion—could bring such a delicate touch to the subject of losing a spouse to cancer. In direct, straightforward, and at times strikingly lyrical prose, Jamison looks back at her relationship with her husband, Richard Wyatt, a renowned scientist who battled debilitating dyslexia to become one of the foremost experts on schizophrenia. And with her characteristic honesty, candor, wit, and simplicity, she describes his death, her own long, difficult struggle with grief, and her efforts to distinguish grief from depression.But she also recalls the great joy that Richard brought her during the nearly twenty years they had together. Wryly humorous anecdotes mingle with bittersweet memories of a relationship that was passionate and loving—if troubled on occasion by her manic-depressive (bipolar) illness—as Jamison reveals the ways in which her husband encouraged her to write openly about her mental illness and, through his courage and grace taught her to live fully.A penetrating psychological study of grief viewed from deep inside the experience itself, *Nothing Was the Same* is also a deeply moving memoir by a superb writer.