El El demonio de la depresión / The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon
«Intenligente, empático y repleto de conocimientos sobre el tema, Solomon ha construido una ventana iluminadora y sensata sobre la idea médica y la imagen de la depresión.»-- Publisher Weekly.El demonio de la depresión es una obra fundamental para la comprensión de esta patología. Solomon explora el fenómeno a partir de su propia lucha contra la enfermedad y de entrevistas con otros enfermos, médicos, científicos, políticos, farmacólogos y filósofos; así revela la sutil complejidad y la intensa agonía que definen a este mal.
El libro asume el reto de explicar la depresión y describe el amplio abanico de medicamentos disponibles, la eficacia de las terapias alternativas y el impacto que la enfermedad ha tenido en distintas sociedades a lo largo de la historia. Su contribución a nuestro entendimiento de la enfermedad mental y de la condición humana es asombrosa.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
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 major new chapter covering recently introduced and novel treatments, suicide and anti-depressants, pregnancy and 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, doctors 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. He confronts the challenge of defining the illness and describes the vast range of available medications and treatments, 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.
Andrew Solomon is a Columbia University professor of psychology, the president of the PEN American Center, and a regular writer to The New Yorker, NPR, and The New York Times Magazine. He is the author of Far and Away: Essays from the Edge of Change: Seven Continents, Twenty-Five Years; Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award and went on to win thirty more national honors; and The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, which won the 2001 National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He's also the author of A Stone Boat, a Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award finalist, and The Irony Tower: Soviet Artists at a Time of Glasnost. Around 10 million people have watched his TED presentations. He is a dual national who lives in both New York and London. AndrewSolomon.com is the author's website for more information.
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| ISBN 13 | 9786073801409 |
| ISBN 10 | 6073801408 |
| Title | El El demonio de la depresión / The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression |
| Author | Andrew Solomon |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial |
| Year published | 2021-08-24 |
| Number of pages | 704 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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