The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression

  • Author: Andrew Solomon
  • Narrator: Barrett Whitener
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 22:10:20
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Synopsis

Andrew Solomon’s National Book Award-winning, bestselling, and transformative masterpiece on depression—“the book for a generation, elegantly written, meticulously researched, empathetic, and enlightening” (Time)—now with a major new chapter covering recently introduced and novel treatments, suicide and anti-depressants, pregnancy and depression, and much more.

The Noonday Demon examines depression in personal, cultural, and scientific terms. Drawing on his own struggles with the illness and interviews with fellow sufferers, doctors and scientists, policy makers and politicians, drug designers, and philosophers, Andrew Solomon reveals the subtle complexities and sheer agony of the disease as well as the reasons for hope. He confronts the challenge of defining the illness and describes the vast range of available medications and treatments, and the impact the malady has on various demographic populations—around the world and throughout history. He also explores the thorny patch of moral and ethical questions posed by biological explanations for mental illness. With uncommon humanity, candor, wit and erudition, award-winning author Solomon takes readers on a journey of incomparable range and resonance into the most pervasive of family secrets. His contribution to our understanding not only of mental illness but also of the human condition is truly stunning.

Chapters

  • TheNoondayDemon 21 Chapter4a

    Duration: 13min
  • TheNoondayDemon 22 Chapter4b

    Duration: 18min
  • TheNoondayDemon 23 Chapter4c

    Duration: 24min
  • TheNoondayDemon 24 Chapter4d

    Duration: 23min
  • TheNoondayDemon 25 Chapter4e

    Duration: 20min
  • TheNoondayDemon 26 Chapter4f

    Duration: 16min
  • TheNoondayDemon 27 Chapter5a

    Duration: 27min
  • TheNoondayDemon 28 Chapter5b

    Duration: 21min
  • TheNoondayDemon 29 Chapter5c

    Duration: 22min
  • TheNoondayDemon 30 Chapter5d

    Duration: 24min
  • TheNoondayDemon 31 Chapter5e

    Duration: 19min
  • TheNoondayDemon 32 Chapter5f

    Duration: 19min
  • TheNoondayDemon 33 Chapter6a

    Duration: 13min
  • TheNoondayDemon 33 Chapter6b

    Duration: 24min
  • TheNoondayDemon 34 Chapter6c

    Duration: 19min
  • TheNoondayDemon 35 Chapter6d

    Duration: 23min
  • TheNoondayDemon 36 Chapter7a

    Duration: 22min
  • TheNoondayDemon 37 Chapter7b

    Duration: 20min
  • TheNoondayDemon 38 Chapter7c

    Duration: 21min
  • TheNoondayDemon 39 Chapter7d

    Duration: 22min
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