In ‘Fires within the Darkish,’ Kay Redfield Jamison Turns to Healers
Kay Redfield Jamison arrives punctually at a towering marble statue of Jesus Christ within the entrance of the outdated hospital constructing on Johns Hopkins Medical Campus. Subsequent to it, two visitor books are left open to obtain the desires and prayers of those that move by way of these halls. “Expensive God please assist our daughter really feel higher. …” “Expensive Lord, please heal my grandpa and let him stay fortunately. …”This constructing, embellished with rows of oil work of Hopkins docs and nurses by way of the ages, is redolent of the historical past of therapeutic. The determined, unsure, even heroic try to heal is on the middle of Jamison’s new ebook, “Fires within the Darkish: Therapeutic the Unquiet Thoughts,” out on Could 23 from Knopf.“If I might have subtitled it ‘A ...
