The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon

The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon

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.

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	9781501123887
ISBN 10	1501123882
Title	The Noonday Demon
Author	Andrew Solomon
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Scribner Book Company
Year published	2015-05-19
Number of pages	688
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