Word: mental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...With Vin, so much of his is mental," Murphy says. " such a good feel for the game...
...what few knew until her revelation this year is that Jamison has suffered from manic depression for more than 30 years. Now Jamison is publishing a memoir that chronicles her odyssey from painful mental chaos to an uneasy psychic peace. Written with poetic and moving sensitivity, An Unquiet Mind (Knopf; $22) is a rare and insight ful view of mental illness from inside the mind of a trained specialist...
Going public has not been easy for Jamison, 49. As a therapist, she well knows the stigma that mental frailty carries, and she worried about the effect her confession would have on her patients and colleagues. Some patients were shocked when she told them, she recalls. "They said, 'You're so normal, so Brooks Brothers. You don't look like you've had a problem in your life.'" But she was "tired of the waffling," she says. "My pro fessional life is devoted to helping people understand and accept this disease. And if a professor at Hopkins...
Nowadays Jamison has achieved a more settled existence. At Hopkins there is the routine of teaching, research and counseling. In Washington, at home with her second husband Dr. Richard Wyatt, a schizophrenia researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health, she writes her books, sees close friends and takes long walks. But like many who have lived life at the highest pitch, Jamison finds being "normal" a "bittersweet exchange." "I know without lithium I'd be dead or insane," she says. And yet "I don't see Saturn's image now without feeling an acute sadness...
...fact, in true Alabama tradition, James is at war with the law. State and federal judges have, at one time or another, declared Alabama's public schools, mental institutions and foster-care system constitutionally inadequate. Rather than giving in to judicial rulings he dislikes, James inveighs against "pygmy-headed, pea-brained so-called jurists," harking back to the time when Governor George Wallace recommended "barbed-wire enemas" for federal judges. More substantively, James introduced a long-shot bill that would allow the legislature and the Governor to overturn rulings of the Alabama Supreme Court from which three or more judges...