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About Andrew Solomon
See more books from this Author(The gruesome litany of suicide techniques, for example, seems gratuitous.) Nevertheless, the importance of the work becomes virtually self-evident when Solomon addresses such topics as the cultural denial of depression, masculine fears of seeking treatment, strengths and weaknesses of various tr...
| Read Full Review of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas O...The Noonday Demon: An Anatomy of Depression Andrew Solomon (Vintage, £8.99) Bad advice about how to cope with depression abounds.
Mar 30 2002 | Read Full Review of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas O...The Noonday Demon: an Anatomy of Depression Andrew Solomon Chatto & Windus £20, pp560 Buy it at a discount at BOL 'Depression is the flaw in love.
May 06 2001 | Read Full Review of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas O...While outlining the major treatments, Solomon's discussion covers brain chemistry, the classes of antidepressants and their possible effects and efficacy rates, as well as the successful resurgence of electroshock therapy, talk therapy, surgical options and alternative therapies (e.g., herbal, ho...
| Read Full Review of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas O...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 ...
| Read Full Review of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas O...There are ugly, frightening moments in the ''Noonday Demon'' Andrew Solomon's treatise on the ''slippery demon'' that is depression.
Jun 29 2001 | Read Full Review of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas O...An aggregated and normalized score based on 295 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes