At the interface of mental wellness and creative art

When Kay Redfield Jamison was 17 and experiencing her first mental breakdown, her English teacher gave her two of Robert Lowell’s poems to read – The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket and Mr Edwards and the Spider.

“They went through me like the wind,” says the septuagenarian and Dalio Professor of Mood Disorders and Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.