9780684854663
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
Andrew Solomon
ISBN 13: 9780684854663
Publisher: Scribner
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Hardcover
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The award-winning author of A Stone Boat offers a deeply personal look at depression in which he draws on his own battle with the illness and interviews with fellow sufferers, researchers, doctors, and others to assess the vast complexities of the disease, its causes and symptoms, available therapies, and impact on society.
Review:
"Although his descriptions of depression itself are compellingly vivid and unflinching, there is a lack of telling detail in the accounts of other aspects of his life."
Roy Porter, Literary Review, June 2001
Review:"[T]his book is more than a string of wrenching personal anecdotes. Particularly valuable are sections devoted to treatment and history, which tear to shreds the assumption that depression is a curable affliction of the modern-day middle class."
Karen Valby, Entertainment Weekly, Summer 2001
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Book Description: Scribner and Welford, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A., 2001. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. BRAND NEW, FLAWLESS COPY, NEVER OPENED -- 569 pages. " 'Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who despair,' begins Solomon's expansive and astutely observed examination of the experience, origins, and cultural manifestations of depression. While placing his study in a broad social contex-- according to recent research, some 19 million Americans suffer from chronic depression--he also chronicles his own battle with the disease. Beginning just after his senior year in college, Solomon began experiencing crippling episodes of depression. They became so bad that after losing his mother to cancer and his therapist to retirement he attempted (unsuccessfully) to contract HIV so that he would have a reason to kill himself. Attempting to put depression and its treatments in a cross-cultural context, he draws effectively and skillfully on medical studies, historical and sociological literature, and anecdotal evidence, analyzing studies of depression in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, Inuit life in Greenland, the use of electroshock therapy and the connections between depression and suicide in the U. S. And other cultures. In examining depression as a cultural phenomenon, he cites many literary melancholics Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, John Milton, Shakespeare, John Keats, and George Eliot as well as such thinkers as Freud and Hegel, to map out his 'atlas' of the condition. Smart, empathetic, and exhibiting a wide and resonant knowledge of the topic, Solomon has provided an enlightening and sobering window onto both the medical and imaginative worlds of depression." (from Publishers Weekly). Bookseller Inventory # 30645 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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