Fires in the Dark: Healing the Unquiet Mind
Kay Redfield Jamison“To treat, even to cure, is not always to heal.” In this expansive cultural history of the treatment & healing of mental suffering, Kay Jamison writes about psychotherapy, what makes a great healer, & the role of imagination & memory in regenerating the mind. From the trauma of the battlefields of the twentieth century, to those who are grieving, depressed, or with otherwise unquiet minds, to her own experience with bipolar illness, Jamison demonstrates how remarkable psychotherapy & other treatments can be when done well.
She argues that not only patients but doctors must be healed. She draws on the example of W.H.R. Rivers, the renowned psychiatrist who treated poet Siegfried Sassoon & other World War I soldiers, & discusses the long history of physical treatments...M.F