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 01 Introduction

    Duration: 10min
  • TheNoondayDemon 02 Chapter1a

    Duration: 15min
  • TheNoondayDemon 03 Chapter1b

    Duration: 18min
  • TheNoondayDemon 04 Chapter1c

    Duration: 20min
  • TheNoondayDemon 05 Chapter1d

    Duration: 20min
  • TheNoondayDemon 06 Chapter2a

    Duration: 25min
  • TheNoondayDemon 07 Chapter2b

    Duration: 20min
  • TheNoondayDemon 08 Chapter2c

    Duration: 21min
  • TheNoondayDemon 09 Chapter2d

    Duration: 22min
  • TheNoondayDemon 10 Chapter2e

    Duration: 20min
  • TheNoondayDemon 11 Chapter2f

    Duration: 23min
  • TheNoondayDemon 12 Chapter2g

    Duration: 23min
  • TheNoondayDemon 13 Chapter2h

    Duration: 20min
  • TheNoondayDemon 14 Chapter2i

    Duration: 13min
  • TheNoondayDemon 15 Chapter3a

    Duration: 16min
  • TheNoondayDemon 16 Chapter3b

    Duration: 14min
  • TheNoondayDemon 17 Chapter3c

    Duration: 21min
  • TheNoondayDemon 18 Chapter3d

    Duration: 22min
  • TheNoondayDemon 19 Chapter3e

    Duration: 16min
  • TheNoondayDemon 20 Chapter3f

    Duration: 13min
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