The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression
Andrew Solomon
Feb 2012 · Simon and Schuster · Narrated by Barrett Whitener
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The Noonday Demon is Andrew Solomon’s National Book Award-winning, bestselling, and transformative masterpiece on depression—“the book for a generation, elegantly written, meticulously researched, empathetic, and enlightening” (Time)—now with a chapter covering recently introduced and novel treatments, suicide prevention and anti-depressants including SSRIs, pregnancy and postpartum depression, and much more.
The Noonday Demon examines depression in personal, cultural, and scientific terms. Drawing on his own struggles with the illness and interviews with fellow sufferers, psychiatrists and scientists, policy makers and politicians, drug designers, and philosophers, Andrew Solomon reveals the subtle complexities and sheer agony of the disease as well as the reasons for hope and recovery.
He confronts the challenge of defining the illness and describes the vast range of available medications and treatments—including antidepressants, psychotherapy and cognitive behavioral therapy, transcranial magnetic stimulation, electroconvulsive therapy, and more—and the impact the malady has on various demographic populations around the world and throughout history. He also explores the thorny patch of moral and ethical questions posed by biological explanations for mental illness. With uncommon humanity, candor, wit and erudition, award-winning author Solomon takes readers on a journey of incomparable range and resonance into the most pervasive of family secrets. His contribution to our understanding not only of mental illness but also of the human condition is truly stunning.
The Noonday Demon examines depression in personal, cultural, and scientific terms. Drawing on his own struggles with the illness and interviews with fellow sufferers, psychiatrists and scientists, policy makers and politicians, drug designers, and philosophers, Andrew Solomon reveals the subtle complexities and sheer agony of the disease as well as the reasons for hope and recovery.
He confronts the challenge of defining the illness and describes the vast range of available medications and treatments—including antidepressants, psychotherapy and cognitive behavioral therapy, transcranial magnetic stimulation, electroconvulsive therapy, and more—and the impact the malady has on various demographic populations around the world and throughout history. He also explores the thorny patch of moral and ethical questions posed by biological explanations for mental illness. With uncommon humanity, candor, wit and erudition, award-winning author Solomon takes readers on a journey of incomparable range and resonance into the most pervasive of family secrets. His contribution to our understanding not only of mental illness but also of the human condition is truly stunning.
The Noonday Demon is Andrew Solomon’s National Book Award-winning, bestselling, and transformative masterpiece on depression—“the book for a generation, elegantly written, meticulously researched, empathetic, and enlightening” (Time)—now with a chapter covering recently introduced and novel treat...
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Andrew Solomon is a writer and lecturer on psychology, politics, and the arts and a professor of clinical medical psychology (in psychiatry) at Columbia University Medical Center. He is the author of Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and named one of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century; The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, winner of the National Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Far and Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change; A Stone Boat; and The Irony Tower: Soviet Artists in a Time of Glasnost. A former president of PEN America, Solomon is an activist in LGBTQ+ rights, mental health, and the arts, and his TED talks have been viewed more than twenty-seven million times. He lives in New York and London. For more information, visit the author’s website at AndrewSolomon.com.
Andrew Solomon is a writer and lecturer on psychology, politics, and the arts and a professor of clinical medical psychology (in psychiatry) at Columbia University Medical Center. He is the author of Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, winner of the National Book Cr...
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