The Noonday Demon

Andrew Solomon

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Vintage
01 February 2016

Psychology; Popular medicine & health; Popular psychology

WITH A NEW EPILOGUE BY THE AUTHOR

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.

WITH A NEW EPILOGUE BY THE AUTHOR

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.

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. 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. He talks to faith healers and voyages around the world in a quest for folk wisdom. 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.
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*ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY
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By: Andrew Solomon
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 49mm
Weight: 668g
ISBN: 9781784702670
ISBN 10: 1784702676
Pages: 688
Publication Date: 01 February 2016
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Noonday Demon

The best book ever on depression. Andrew Solomon explains everything with a sharp, scientific clarity. -- William Leith * Evening Standard * The history, treatment and even politics of depression are thoroughly covered... Solomon's brutal honesty makes this the best account of depression I have ever read. -- Chris Nancollas * Tablet * A mesmerising journey... magnificent * Observer * Extraordinary and redeeming... A work of great charm and individuality but also of impressive scholarship * Evening Standard * A lodestone work * Guardian *

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