It has been difficult at times to weave together the scientific discipline of my intellectual field with the more compelling realities of my own emotional experiences.
Kay Redfield Jamison, 2015, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness, Picador, p. 7
Kay Redfield Jamison’s distinction between scientific knowledge and experiential knowledge is one that I have also lived with as someone who does research and the work that I research. In the end, I trust both forms of knowledge, but encourage them to question each other.
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