Editing Kay Redfield Jamison (section)

==Education and career==
Jamison began her study of clinical psychology at [[University of California, Los Angeles]] in the late 1960s, receiving both [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] and [[Master of Arts|M.A.]] degrees in 1971. She continued on at UCLA, receiving a [[Candidate of Philosophy|C.Phil.]] in 1973 and a [[PhD]] in 1975, and became a faculty member at the university. She went on to found and direct the school's [[Mood disorder|Affective Disorders]] Clinic, a large teaching and research facility for outpatient treatment. She also studied [[zoology]] and [[neurophysiology]] as an undergraduate at the [[University of St. Andrews]] in Scotland.

After several years as a tenured professor at UCLA, Jamison was offered a position as Assistant Professor and then Professor of Psychiatry at the [[Johns Hopkins University]] School of Medicine.  Jamison has given visiting lectures at a number of different institutions while maintaining her professorship at [[Johns Hopkins University|Hopkins]]. She was distinguished lecturer at [[Harvard University]] in 2002 and the Litchfield lecturer at the [[University of Oxford]] in 2003. She was Honorary President and board member of the [[Canadian Psychological Association]] from 2009 to 2010. In 2010, she was a panelist in the series of discussions on the latest research into the brain, hosted by [[Charlie Rose]] with series scientist [[Eric Kandel]] on PBS.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://charlierose.com/collections/3/clip/18615 |title=The Brain Series: Mental Illness |access-date=October 8, 2017 |work=Charlie Rose |date=June 22, 2010}}</ref>