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This extraordinarily moving, shocking and eye-opening work is set to become the classic text on the subject of depression, mental illness and the way ...Show synopsisThis extraordinarily moving, shocking and eye-opening work is set to become the classic text on the subject of depression, mental illness and the way we live now, for the literary market - the book that knocks even William Styron's Darkness Visible out of the water. Like Kay Jamison's An Unquiet Mind it digs deep and painfully into personal experience, but it also looks at the much wider picture - the historical, social, biological, chemical, pharmaceutical and medical aspects and implications of the disease - broadening the scope immeasurably. What is crucial is that Solomon has not only experienced what he is writing about firsthand, and describes the experience from the inside terrifyingly and brilliantly, but also that he has researched every aspect of depression, from the historical treatment and study of 'melancholy' as far back as the Greeks and Romans (who believed that cauliflower was good for depression), right through to the side effects of the pharmaceutical cocktails of the present day, case histories of people in & out of mental hospitals, faith healers, the power of suggestion, as well as the implications for the future of Western society. He also writes like a dream.Hide synopsis
Description:Very Good in Very Good jacket. Signed Later [8th] printing. This...Very Good in Very Good jacket. Signed Later [8th] printing. This copy has been inscribed and signed by the author on the page facing the title page. 571 pages, notes, bibliography, acknowledgments, index. Near Fine copy with spine heel bumping in Near Fine Dust Wrapper with slight spine fading.
Description:Very good in fine dust jacket. SIGNED/inscribed by author...Very good in fine dust jacket. SIGNED/inscribed by author opposite to title page. 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Dust jacket almost as new. Shelfwear to base of spine. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 576 p. Audience: General/trade. The National Book Award-winning work by the author of 'A Stone Boat' and 'Blake's Job. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a protective mylar sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
Description:Near Fine in near fine jacket. An Atlas of Depression. 571 pp....Near Fine in near fine jacket. An Atlas of Depression. 571 pp. 8vo. Tail of spine slightly bumped. Brodart protected.
Description:Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. 571 p....Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. 571 p. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Andrew Solomon covers geographical and historical distance in this atlas of depression. In it, he discusses the crushing and pervasive effects of depression on people, the social policy and prescription drugs for controlling it, and its demographic profile around the world. In addition, Solomon uses case studies and his own harrowing personal perspective to illustrate the finer points. A National Book Award nominee and New York Times Notable Book for 2001.
Description:Fine book in very good dust jacket with edgewear. Signed by...Fine book in very good dust jacket with edgewear. Signed by author on the full title page. Book is too large for priority envelope or foreign mail. Notice of signing event laid in book.
Description:068485466x. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket.; Signed by...068485466x. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket.; Signed by author.; 1.6 x 9.3 x 6.2 Inches; 576 pages; Signed by Author.
Description:New. 068485466X. BRAND NEW, FLAWLESS COPY, NEVER OPENED--569...New. 068485466X. BRAND NEW, FLAWLESS COPY, NEVER OPENED--569 pages. " 'Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who despair, ' begins Solomon's expansive and astutely observed examination of the experience, origins, and cultural manifestations of depression. While placing his study in a broad social contex--according to recent research, some 19 million Americans suffer from chronic depression--he also chronicles his own battle with the disease. Beginning just after his senior year in college, Solomon began experiencing crippling episodes of depression. They became so bad that after losing his mother to cancer and his therapist to retirement he attempted (unsuccessfully) to contract HIV so that he would have a reason to kill himself. Attempting to put depression and its treatments in a cross-cultural context, he draws effectively and skillfully on medical studies, historical and sociological literature, and anecdotal evidence, analyzing studies of depression in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, Inuit life in Greenland, the use of electroshock therapy and the connections between depression and suicide in the U. S. And other cultures. In examining depression as a cultural phenomenon, he cites many literary melancholics Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, John Milton, Shakespeare, John Keats, and George Eliot as well as such thinkers as Freud and Hegel, to map out his 'atlas' of the condition. Smart, empathetic, and exhibiting a wide and resonant knowledge of the topic, Solomon has provided an enlightening and sobering window onto both the medical and imaginative worlds of depression." (from Publishers Weekly)
If you or anyone close to you has ever suffered from depression ? real, total shut-down depression not the ?blues? ? then you know how devastating it can be for the individual and their loved ones. It diminishes productivity, ruins relationships, sucks the life out of life, brings careers to a halt ...
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