The Benefits of Restlessness and Jagg..., Kay Redfield Jamison
The Benefits of Restlessness and Jagg..., Kay Redfield Jamison
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The Benefits of Restlessness and Jagged Edges
A "This I Believe" Essay

Author: Kay Redfield Jamison, Jay Allison, Dan Gediman

Narrator: Kay Redfield Jamison

Unabridged: 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/03/2006


Synopsis

Professor of psychiatry Kay Redfield Jamison describes the power of intense emotions and temperaments in "The Benefits of Restlessness and Jagged Edges", her contribution to NPR’s This I Believe series.

This I Believe is a National Public Radio program that features Americans, from the famous to the unknown, completing the thought that begins with the series title. The pieces that make up the program compel listeners to re-think not only what and how they have arrived at their own personal beliefs, but also the extent to which they share them with others.

Featuring a star-studded list of contributors that includes John McCain, Isabel Allende, and Colin Powell, as well as pieces from the original 1950's series including Helen Keller and Jackie Robinson, the This I Believe collection also contains essays by a Brooklyn lawyer, a woman who sells yellow pages advertising in Fort Worth, and a man who serves on the state of Rhode Island's parole board. The result is a stirring, funny and always provocative trip inside the minds and hearts of a diverse group of Americans whose beliefs, and the incredibly varied ways in which they choose to express them, reveal the American spirit at its best.

This short audio essay is an excerpt from the audiobook edition of the This I Believe anthology.

About Kay Redfield Jamison

Kay Redfield Jamison, who contributed "The Benefits of Restlessness and Jagged Edges" to NPR's This I Believe program, is a professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and an honorary professor of English at the University of St Andrews. She has received multiple awards for her work and is the author of the Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Robert Lowell: Setting the River on Fire; a classic textbook on bipolar disorder, Manic-Depressive Illness; and the nationally bestselling memoir, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness.

About Jay Allison

Jay Allison is one of public radio's most honored producers. He has produced hundreds of nationally broadcast documentaries and features for radio and television. His work has earned him the duPont-Columbia and five Peabody Awards, and he was the 1996 recipient of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's Edward R. Murrow Award for outstanding contributions to public radio, the industry's highest honor. He was the curator and producer of This I Believe on NPR and he produces The Moth Radio Hour. Before his career in broadcasting, Jay was a theater director in Washington, D.C. He is also the founder of the public radio stations for Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, and Cape Cod where he lives.

About Dan Gediman

Dan Gediman is the executive producer of This I Believe. His work has been heard on All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Fresh Air, Marketplace, Jazz Profiles, and This American Life. He has won many of public broadcasting’s most prestigious awards, including the duPont-Columbia Award.


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