Talk:Kay Redfield Jamison

Post 2005 we had an email conversation I asserted that you stole the name you write under

My birth name this reincarnation on official documentation was Fiona Catherine Seth as issued by the Province of Ontario to me several times

Qualifications
Can anyone help clarify Jamison's professional training/qualifications before I try to clarify on the page. It is listed here and in many places on the web that she is a professor of psychiatry or a psychiatrist, but in some places, including a recent book I have, that she's a clinical psychologist. The Wikipedia disambiguation page for her name refers to her as a Psychiatrist.

I read that she originally started undergraduate medical training but stopped about halfway through, instead switching to clinical psychology in which it seems she qualified. I see she later moved from UCLA psychology dept to the psychiatry dept of John Hopkins and was made professor, but she doesn't appear to be an MD.

So it looks like she's actually a clinical psychologist (but is she practicing/certified to practice as one?) rather than a psychiatrist, who nevertheless works mainly in psychiatry and was made a professor of psychiatry by John Hopkins University... EverSince 11:05, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

I recently heard her speak April 30, 2010 at the DBSA National Conference in Chicago. She is not a MD or a Psychiatrist. She TAUGHT psychiatrists at John Hopkins University. She holds a PHD from UCLA and is a clinical psychologist. She even made it clear in her talk that she is NOT a psychiatrist. You do not have to be an MD to teach every subject. As a person with a very intelligent mind, she was not MADE a professor, she EARNED it. Dr. Jamison, in spite of her bipolar disorder, has written several books. Her books and speaking engagements have helped countless others succeed beyond their wildest dreams. Her talk, this past weekend, was about the death of her husband and she has recently written a book about the subject of dealing with grief.

According to her web page at John Hopkins she is Dalio Family Professor in Mood Disorders and Co-Director, Mood Disorders Center see http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/psychiatry/expert_team/faculty/J/Jamison.html FYI a psychiatrist is always a medical doctor  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.66.93.227 (talk) 18:18, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Photo
It's probably immaterial, but I wonder what her right eye (viewer's left) really looks like. Notice that most of it has been copied from her left eye (viewer's right). Is the original photo available?

I recognize that it probably wouldn't significantly contribute to the usefulness of the page any more than the modified photo could be said to detract. Just a small question. JMiykal (talk) 06:24, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

Suicide
"She had miscalculated the lethal dose, so the attempt failed."

I think this statement is inaccurate. I read her autobiography An Unquite Mind and she quite clearly writes herself that she took a massive overdose which by definition is leathal. The reason she survived (she nearly died) was because she answered the phone when she was already severely affected by lithium toxicity after she took the overdose and thus alerted her brother that something was wrong. Her brother in turn called her psychiatrist immediately and I asume he alerted emergency services which managed to get her to a hospital on time. She also worked as a clinician at the hospital and she has lots of professional knowledge about medication so she would have known exactly what the leathal dose is. If you take fistfuls after fistfuls of lithium you're bound to get toxic and you die without medical intervention. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.167.219.80 (talk) 10:27, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Criticism
If she said that we've known for hundreds of years that bipolar disorder is genetic, there is really no reason at all to criticize her for that: it is almost certainly true that it's been known to be hereditary for hundreds of years (it tended to run in all the "high" families with meticulously maintained family trees, and the signs were unmistakable to all those experts in (selective) breeding.)  "genetic" is simply the term that is used today instead of hereditary - a typical development in language use: generalization. I therefore propose to remove that particular "criticism" as not worthy of mention in Wikipedia. (Personally, I don't think that misstatements of any kind on live(!) TV or radio are critique-worthy, come to think of it. After all, all they tell you is that the person who made that statement is human like the rest of us and makes mistakes, especially under pressure.)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:4B:2E50:4686:71C8:733E:451D:91A0 (talk) 18:58, 3 July 2016 (UTC)

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Update photo
Per Dr. Kay Jamison's request her photo was updated. The edit was then rejected. Is it possible for the editor to correct this error? Mbcogan (talk) 01:48, 8 July 2023 (UTC)


 * I'll repeat what I told you on email:
 * First off, the photo you uploaded was copyrighted and you evidently claimed it was your own work. Did you actually take that photo? Secondly, we don't edit biographies based on someone's preferences. I'm happy to have a more recent photo if there's a freely licensed one, but if there's not, you've got what you've got.
 * Do you have a freely-licensed photo of her that you can share? If you need help understanding licensing, please let me know. ―Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:20, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Justin,
 * She has given me another photo. Is it possible for me to send it to you to see if it is ok? Mbcogan (talk) 12:31, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
 * I would be delighted to help you upload the photo. On Wikipedia, we have a strong preference for freely-licensed media that is stored at the Wikimedia Commons. That project allows for media with several kinds of licenses, but one of the most common ones is CC BY 4.0. You can 1.) upload a photo on Commons that you personally own the rights to and license it CC BY 4.0 (or another free license that is acceptable), 2.) if you don't own the rights, get the person who does to upload it with an appropriate license, or 3.) get the person who owns the rights to upload the photo somewhere else and include a declaration that the photo has the appropriate license. If any of that is confusing, please let me know. ―Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:00, 9 July 2023 (UTC)