Dr.
      Kay Redfield Jamison
Johns Hopkins University
      Clinical psychologist; Educator
      Area
                                Biological Sciences
                            Specialty
                                Medical Sciences
                            Elected
                                    2015
                    World authority on mood disorders and an author who has brought deep psychological insights to the general public in a series of books that include autobiographical works, studies of historical figures, and explorations of artistic and scientific creativity. She coauthored two classic textbooks: Abnormal Psychology (1980) and Manic Depressive Illness (2007). Her autobiographical memoir An Unquiet Mind (1995) was translated into 25 languages, and her exploration of the psychological and societal contexts of suicide Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide (1999)  was translated into 15 languages.
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