Writer's Shift of Focus From Suffering to Healing.

The article focuses on clinical psychologist and psychiatry professor Kay Redfield Jamison and her writing of a cultural history of recovery with the book "Fires in the Dark: Healing the Unquiet Mind." It takes a look into Jamison's falling into deep depression after a mild mania when she was in high school and her journey to healing and recovery. It also discusses how psychiatrist W. H. Rivers helped Smith heal through psychotherapy and autognosis.