KAY REDFIELD JAMISONNothing Was The Same Thursday, October 22, 7:30 PM Berkeley Arts & Letters @ The Hillside Club2286 Cedar Street, Berkeley, wheelchair access$12 advance ($6 students with ID advance) at Brown Paper Tickets or 800-838-3006 /$15 doorPerhaps no one but Kay Redfield Jamison -- who combines the acute perceptions of a psychologist with elegant and passionate writing -- could bring such a delicate touch to the subject of losing a spouse to cancer. 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, wit, and simplicity, she describes his death, her own long, difficult struggle with grief, and her efforts to distinguish grief from depression. She also recalls the great joy that Richard brought her during the nearly twenty years they had together. Kay Redfield Jamison is Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine as well as Honorary Professor of English at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. She is the author of An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness, Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide, and Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament. She is coauthor of the standard medical text on manic-depressive illness and author or coauthor of more than one hundred scientific papers about mood disorders, creativity, and psychopharmacology.










