![]() 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. He talks to faith healers and voyages around the world in a quest for folk wisdom. ![]() kai daimoniou mesembrinou, instead of 'the destruction that wasteth at noonday. (xci.) 6, where the Latin 'et dæmonio meridiano' follows the LXX. 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. Lastly, there are some of the elders who declare that this is the 'midday demon' spoken of in the ninetieth Psalm. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The Noonday Demon is Andrew Solomons National Book Award-winning, bestselling, and transformative masterpiece on depression-the book. ![]() 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. ![]() ![]() 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. ![]()
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