The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780965018883 (0965018881)
Publish date: 2001
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Pages no: 571
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Science,
Health,
Self Help,
Psychology,
Medicine,
Mental Health,
Mental Illness
Jesus.........
After slogging through a large chunk of The Noonday Demon, I've come to accept I just can't see it through to the end. This book is lethal: alternately depressing readers, boring readers, and making readers roll their eyes so hard they pop out of their heads.First: depression on any level, mild o...
Despite finding this to be a well-written book, I just can't recommend it. In many ways, Mr. Solomon's deductions about mental illness, primarily depression, were too sweeping. I've learnt over the years that each case and treatment has to be fine tuned, and that what works for one person, won't wor...
I was full of trepidation at the heaviness of the subject here, but in the end I am very glad I read it. He investigates depression from every angle including the view from his own break-ups, and talks to all sorts of people in many walks of life and parts of the world.
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