UUMHN Book Club

The Unitarian Universalist Mental Health Network (UUMHN) Book Club will be discussing "An Unquiet Mind" by Kay Redfield Jamison at its next meeting on Saturday, October 24, 2026, at 6 p.m. Eastern Time, 3 p.m. Pacific Time. 

Please join us for a lively discussion whether or not you have read the book. Details about the book are below.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A deeply powerful memoir about bipolar illness that has both transformed and saved lives—with a new preface by the author. 

Dr. Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness; she has also experienced it firsthand. For even while she was pursuing her career in academic medicine, Jamison found herself succumbing to the same exhilarating highs and catastrophic depressions that afflicted many of her patients, as her disorder launched her into ruinous spending sprees, episodes of violence, and an attempted suicide.

Here Jamison examines bipolar illness from the dual…