Editing Kay Redfield Jamison (section)

==Academic contributions==
Her latest book, ''Robert Lowell:  Setting the River on Fire'', was a Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Biography in 2018.

Her book ''Manic-Depressive Illness'', first published in 1990 and co-authored with psychiatrist [[Frederick K. Goodwin]] is considered a classic textbook on bipolar disorder. The Acknowledgements section states that Goodwin "received unrestricted educational grants to support
the production of this book from [[Abbott Laboratories|Abbott]], [[AstraZeneca]], [[Bristol Meyers Squibb]], [[Forest Laboratories|Forest]], [[GlaxoSmithKline]], [[Janssen Pharmaceutica|Janssen]], [[Eli Lilly and Company|Eli Lilly]], [[Pfizer]], and [[Sanofi]]", but that although Jamison has "received occasional lecture honoraria
from AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, and Eli Lilly" she "has received no research support from any pharmaceutical or biotechnology company" and donates her royalties to a non-profit foundation.

Her seminal works among laypeople are her memoir ''An Unquiet Mind'', which details her experience with severe [[mania]] and [[depression (mood)|depression]], and ''Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide'', providing historical, religious, and cultural responses to [[suicide]], as well as the relationship between [[mental illness]] and suicide. In ''Night Falls Fast'', Jamison dedicates a chapter to American public policy and public opinion as it relates to suicide. Her second memoir, ''Nothing Was the Same'', examines her relationship with her second husband, the psychiatrist [[Richard Jed Wyatt]], who was Chief of the Neuropsychiatry Branch of the [[National Institute of Mental Health]] until his death in 2002.

In her study ''Exuberance: The Passion for Life'', she cites research that suggests that 15 percent of people who could be diagnosed as bipolar may never actually become [[depression (mood)|depressed]]; in effect, they are permanently "high" on life. She mentions President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] as an example.

''Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament'' is Jamison's exploration of how bipolar disorder can run in artistic or high-achieving families. As an example, she cites [[Lord Byron]] and his relatives.<!--Expand examples to at the least  include composers particularly, foundational to her later work with wife of Norman Mailer on Moods sand Music concert series.-->

Jamison wrote ''An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness'' in part to help clinicians see what patients find helpful in therapy. J. Wesley Boyd, an assistant professor at the Department of Psychiatry at Tufts University's School of Medicine, wrote, "Jamison's description [of the debt she owed her psychiatrist] illustrates the importance of merely being present for our patients and not trying to soothe them with platitudes or promises of a better future."<ref>Boyd, J. Wesley. "Stories of Illness: Authorship in Medicine" Psychiatry, Vol. 60 Winter 1997: 352. Print</ref>