![]() ![]() He analyses the medications of today as well as reviewing the politics of diagnosis and treatment and, perhaps most significantly, he looks at the vital role of will and love in the process of recovery. Thank you for signing up, fellow book lover Tell us what you like and we'll recommend books you'll love. He talks to faith healers and voyages around the world in a quest for folk wisdom. The Noonday Demon Book by Andrew Solomon Official Publisher Page Simon & Schuster About The Book About The Author Product Details Related Articles The Noonday Demon More books from this author: Andrew Solomon. He takes us through the halls of mental hospitals where some of his subjects have been imprisoned for decades into the research labs to the burdened and afflicted poor, rural and urban. ![]() Solomon also portrays the pain of others, in different cultures and societies whose lives have been shattered by depression and uncovers the historical, social, biological, chemical and medical implications of this crippling disease. ![]() Like Primo Levi's The Periodic Table, The Noonday Demon digs deep into personal history, as Andrew Solomon narrates, brilliantly and terrifyingly, his own agonising experience of depression. The most affecting, intelligent, important and constructive book on depression there has ever been - a key text by a New Yorker writer who has not only experienced the depths of depression but has researched every aspect of it. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |