Kay Redfield Jamison Research Paper

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The person I have chosen for this leader paper assignment is Kay Redfield Jamison. I first learned about Jamison when researching information about Bipolar Disorder for one of my psychology classes. Jamison is a well-known psychiatrist and is admired by many people in the fields of psychology and psychiatry. What I admire the most about Jamison is the one thing that distinguishes Jamison from her colleagues and that is that Jamison has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder herself and for many years kept her disorder a secret from her colleagues and from her extended family, until a book about her disorder was published. It takes a lot of strength for a person, especially one working in the field of psychology/psychiatry, to go public with something…show more content…
Jamison has taken her disorder public because she wants to inform people about this disorder and to give them the information to make educated decisions about it on their own. People follow her lead because they want to, not because they get paid to, or because it is what they are supposed to do. Jamison is active in promoting the helpfulness and necessity of knowledge about bipolar disorder. Because bipolar is a personal problem Jamison deals with on a day to day basis, she is empathic to all others who are diagnosed with this disorder. Jamison has a vision about educating mood disorder patients and does not sit back and wait for someone else to do that…show more content…
Mainly I suggest this because she has been motivated to pursue her studies in psychiatry due to her own experiences in the field. Jamison is realistic about what happens during each phase of this disorder and she makes suggestions in each of her books to her readers that are realistic and able to be followed by any Dick or Jane. In her book, “An Unquiet Mind”, Jamison suggests that we all try to look at this mood disorder as not a dysfunction, but instead a part of a person that helps to make them unique and define who they really are deep inside. She is confident in the fact that bipolar disorder can be managed and that patients with this disorder can live a healthy, and semi-normal
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