An important message was waiting for me in my email box. “Susan, wake up,” I said, not able to hold down my excitement. “It’s from Dr. Goodwin.”
Frederick Goodwin MD is a professor of psychiatry at George Washington University. He is the former director of the NIMH, former host of NPR’s “The Infinite Mind," and the author (with Kay Jamison) of the definitive book on bipolar disorder, “Manic Depressive Illness.” Much of what we know about bipolar disorder we owe to Dr....
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