Despair, Ecstasy and Religious Experience

Join Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, Professor of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University as she presents a talk on Despair, Ecstasy and Religious Experience. Dr. Jamison is Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medical School and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Mood Disorders Center. She is also Honorary Professor of English at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Highly respected as a researcher and clinician by her medical and scientific peers, she co-authored of the standard medical textbook on bipolar illness. However, it is her four critically acclaimed books for lay audiences that have touched the hearts of countless people world-wide. These books include her candid and brave memoir An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness. The outpouring of stories from the readers prompted her to address the difficult, almost taboo, subject of suicide in Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide. Dr. Jamison is the recipient of numerous scientific awards, including the prestigious MacArthur Award.

Sunday, March 22, 2009
Breakfast: 9:30AM
Presentation: 10:00AM

Congregation Beth El
Free – no reservations required
8215 Old Georgetown Road
Bethesda, Maryland

Near both the Bethesda and Medical Center Red Line Metro Stations
Directions available at http://www.bethelmc.org/ 301-652-2606