An Unquiet Mind - Kay Redfield Jamison [82]
The chairman of my department at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Paul McHugh, has been singularly supportive, as was, earlier, Dr. Louis Jolyon West, chairman of psychiatry during the time I was on the medical school faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles. I will always owe a great personal as well as intellectual debt to the two men who were my mentors when I was an undergraduate and graduate student, Professors Andrew L. Comrey and the late William H. McGlothlin. I have learned more than I can say, or adequately acknowledge, from both my students and my patients.
I, like many others, was devastated by the death in 1994 of publisher Erwin Glikes. He was not only a remarkable intellect and a profoundly wise human being, he was also a close friend. He published my book Touched with Fire, and I found it virtually impossible to imagine entrusting something as personal as these memoirs to anyone else. Fortunately, I was able to work with Carol Janeway at Knopf. She has been everything one could wish for in an editor: deeply intuitive, extremely intelligent, witty, and unrelenting in her determination to make the book a more complete and better one. It has been a pleasure and privilege to work with her. Dan Frank, the excellent editor of Chaos, lent his formidable editing abilities to a somewhat different kind of chaos, and helped give structure to this book. Working with the staff at Knopf has been delightful. Maxine Groffsky has been a wonderful literary agent—warm, lively, engaged, perceptive, supportive—and I am grateful that Erwin Glikes introduced us.
I am indebted to Oxford University Press for granting me permission to use material that I had written first for teaching purposes, and then incorporated—as a few brief clinical description passages—into a book I coauthored with Dr. Frederick Goodwin, Manic-Depressive Illness. Mr. William Collins, who typed my manuscript, was invaluably accurate, reliable, pleasant, and intelligent.
I have discussed my family at some length in this book. All meaningful relationships are complicated, but I cannot imagine choosing any family other than the one I have: my mother, Dell Temple Jamison; my father, Dr. Marshall Jamison; my brother, Dr. Dean Jamison; my sisters, Phyllis, Danica, and Kelda; my sister-in-law, Dr. Joanne Leslie; my nephews, Julian and Eliot Jamison; and my niece, Leslie Jamison.
My debt to my husband, Dr. Richard Wyatt, is beyond words. He encouraged me to write this book, supported me through all of my doubts and anxieties about doing so, read each draft of my manuscript, and made many helpful suggestions that I took to heart. I am grateful to him for a love that has endured, grown, and been wonderful.
PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:
Elizabeth Barnett, Literary Executor, The Estate of Edna St. Vincent Millay: “Time Does Not Bring Relief” and an excerpt from “Renascence,” from Collected Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay (HarperCollins), copyright © 1912, 1917, 1940, 1945 by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Reprinted courtesy of Elizabeth Barnett, Literary Executor, The Estate of Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Carl Fischer, Inc.: Excerpt from “The U.S. Air Force” song, words and music by Robert Crawford, copyright © 1939, 1942, 1951 by Carl Fischer, Inc., copyright renewed. Reprinted by permission of Carl Fischer, Inc.
New Directions Publishing Corp. and David Higham Associates: Excerpt from “The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower” by Dylan Thomas, from Poems of Dylan Thomas, copyright © 1939 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Rights outside the United States from The Poems (J. M. Dent Publishers) administered by David Higham Associates, London. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. and David Higham Associates.
Special Rider Music: Excerpt from “Subterranean Homesick