The noonday demon: an anatomy of depression

R$ 110,90

Sinopse

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.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.

Participantes

Autor: Andrew Solomon

Autor

ANDREW SOLOMON

Andrew Solomon (Nova York, 1963) dedicou-se a conhecer a vida de famílias que tiveram filhos com distúrbios sociais, culturais ou mentais, como autismo, surdez e nanismo, ou identidades que fogem às normas, como transexualismo. O resultado da pesquisa, Longe da árvore (2013), é um monumental mas sempre caloroso livro em que Solomon lança um olhar humanista para desconstruir alguns dos nossos tabus culturais e sociais mais arraigados. Autor de um importante estudo sobre a depressão, O demônio do meio-dia, que ganha nova edição brasileira pela Companhia das Letras, Solomon é também repórter da revista The New Yorker e colaborador de publicações como Newsweek e The New York Times. Ativista pró-direitos LGBT, é fundador do Solomon Research Fellowships, um programa de bolsas de estudos LGBT na Universidade de Yale.