Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, Exuberance, The Passion for Life

Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, speaks about her book "Exuberance, The Passion for Life" at a conference on teacher wellness organized by the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY). Introduced by CTY's Dr. Charles Rowins. Topics include: mental health, genius, creativity, moods and mood disorders, depression, bi-polar disorder, teaching gifted and talented children, genetics, risk-taking and the joy of teaching. As Dr. Jamison writes in "Exuberance": "To teach well, I heard early and often, is to make a difference. To teach unusually well is to create magic."

[@nadja1618]

6:00 that's the sweet spot. I'm in it right now. Wish me luck on the balance beam. 😎👍

[@theletterwriter-n8q]

I love your mention of the invention of Snoopy!

[@c.brownell8618]

This talk should give hope to the despairing

[@GQElvie]

wow, I am only part way thru this, but this is very encouraging, and she is well spoken. I don't get the haters here..??

[@fugginahole]

This went on for four years, 13-17 until I got kicked out and started smoking marijuana and quit with the anti-depressants, after that things started getting normal again. I had been bounced from doctor to psychiatrist to rehab to doctor #2,3, etc...just getting misdiagnosed. This lady finally is telling those people that they are actually RUINING my life by treating me for depression instead of bipolar.

[@fugginahole]

I am so glad this wonderful woman is being heard! Someone put in the work finally *sigh* I am diagnosed Bipolar and remember going thru puberty, my parents divorce, and a move from private country school to an out-of-state-big city school, when I was first diagnposed. I spent the next 4 years fighting with parents\doctors about not taking my meds (anti-depressants). i would complain about insomnia, hallucinations, diet changes, etc and then they would switch to a different antidepressant...

[@lmlyon]

I appreciate the last few comments as I have great respect for Dr Jamison. My respect is not only for her research and intellect but that she has opened up very private areas of her life in order to help others. Listening to her has helped me greatly.

[@burrerking]

¿podremos verlo con subtítulos en español?

[@Sparco41e]

According to the Johns Hopkins Medical School website, she's a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Her curriculum vitae indicates she holds a PhD in clinical psychology as well as eight honorary doctorates in fields as diverse as law, science, literature, and divinity. Apparently some are impressed with her credentials. I wonder what Bleecker32's credentials might be.

[@gengen1940]

Well, well. Exuberance is our ways of life style or is it our dysfunctions? Then I am elated that mood swings are normal.

[@Bleecker32]

I just recalled something my Hopkins Ph.D.friend told me about her.Look up Dr.Fred Goodwin,a former Head of the National Institute of Mental Health,THE top US government org for Psych.Research.He made her career by letting her work on a masterpiece he wrote about Manic-Depression.He's self-effacing,almost to a fault,my friend said.

[@Painnnnful]

@libramoon2 No, I have found the speed just perfect, I cannot stand it when other speakers speak so slowly, and get stuck and pause.. I lose my attention and patience... But then again, I'm a fast speaker myself.. and have bipolar.

[@user-dw4tk9rk1h]

We want it translated into arbic

[@papasitoman]

Why do people comment on KZbin videos trying to diss people who have spent decades studying and practicing medicine and researching some of the most important things one can imagine? I mean, if you think you know more than she does, get your PHD or MD license and prove her wrong. Until then shup up and do something useful.

[@greeniem]

@lmlyon she's gorgeous too

[@Pianoantics]

If the professor were to shorten her speech and tell us more about her own struggles which we presume to know from her books which seem to be the call from authority which she has credentials to tell us how we are all capable of falling into the medical categories for mental illness even if we the zest for life.

[@Bleecker32]

As the signs in Boston,Mass.say:" No dogs or Irishman."

[@Bleecker32]

Divinity? Good lord !!

[@RunRiverRound]

MYSTERIOUS Redemptive [-eeming] InSIGHTFul

[@pdalaigh]

Well I have never met Stalin or Bush but I feel safe in saying I would not have much time for them, if we only formed opinions about people we have actually met or situations we have encountered well we would not have many opinions now would we? As for whether she is a phoney, all I can say (and according to the vast majority of comments I am in the majority), for someone who struggles with mental illness, depression in particular, her overall comments make a lot of sense,but maybe that's me.

[@papasitoman]

You clearly misunderstood and used a strawman argument. I never said anything about censorship or freedom of expression. There is a difference between name-calling, swearing, insults and making thoughtful, informed commentary. BTW, thanks for calling me a simpleton; it is, of course, your right to do so and you ironically did exactly what I chastised others for doing to the good doctor. Cheers, Papa

[@Bleecker32]

You're right.She has a Ph.D.but holds herself out as an M.D.,an enormous difference.I wonder how serious your Psych.Disorder is.It must be Bipolar . Get her to prescribe Lithium,friend,a naturally occurring substance,# 3 on the Periodic Table.Despite that,she couldn't prescribe even Lithium.. I know another Hopkins Ph.D. (Physiology)who knows her and can't stand her constant self-promotion.

[@Bleecker32]

You're right. It's just you.How would you know about the "vast majority of comments"? Just here? I suspect you're referring to George Bush 43.You think he's in the same league as Stalin?

[@Bleecker32]

She's on Face lift # 3 here. hehehehehe.I'm serious.

[@jwwfan]

Not getting that at all.

[@pdalaigh]

Spelt my name wrong bud (Grammar please)...and your racism is not very becoming now is it? But then such comments are the last refuge of someone who has lost the argument.You obviously have very limited powers of comprehension, so I shall just leave it, after all you are American....and of course "your kid" went to "Hopkins Center for Talented Youth" .......bit of a Walter Mitty I am thinking. I most of touched a nerve somewhere. I mean why spend all that time looking me up?...sad really.

[@pdalaigh]

...again you were so easy to defeat with regard to our original conversation it was rather pathetic......as I said at the start you are without doubt in need of some of Dr Jameson's help, but you already know that, hence why you were watching in the first place! By the way have "the land of the free" closed that concentration camp in Cuba yet? or what about those weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, found any yet?...not very bright are we? Slan....

[@Bleecker32]

She's an incredible BS artist.She pretends she's an MD.She's only a Psychologist.She blames her failure to become an MD on her "Bipolar".You can bet she lobbied people like crazy for this.She's the ultimate academic "Drama Queen".She's a "Professor of Psychiatry" at the Hopkins Med.School.Right!