The noonday demon an anatomy of depression

By:

Solomon, Andrew

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Vintage, 2002.Description: 560 pages 20 cmISBN:

0099277131
9780099277132

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DDC classification:

616.8527 SOL

Awards:

Lambda Literary Award, 2001

Summary: "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."--Publisher description.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Botho University Botswana Open Shelves	Health Information Management	616.8527 SOL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		BU-LIB20895

Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 503-540) and index.

"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."--Publisher description.

Lambda Literary Award, 2001

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